I fucking hate it, the idea that something like that would be trivialized down to a fucking hashtag. I mean, there's a ton of biophobia — people refuse to accept bisexuality as an actual sexuality. And I'm biracial, but also white-passing, which is a unique perspective. So these kids say, like, "Oh, fucking tribe Halsey! She'll never miss an opportunity to talk about it!" I want to sit them down like a mom and go, "Six months ago you were begging for an artist that would talk about this shit! But then I do, and you say, 'Oh, not her. Someone else.

— Ashley Frangipane

If you can still wipe your own backside then life's not that bad!

— E.J. Plows

If you're selfish enough to kill yourself write your suicide note on the back of your will

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

I get absolutely shitfaced. I am shitfaced and hyper and ten years old. Furthermore, I am having the time of my life.

— Marya Hornbacher

I have come of a race noted for vigor of fancy and ardor of passion. Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence--whether much that is glorious--whether all that is profound--does not spring from disease of thought--from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect. They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. In their gray visions they obtain glimpses of eternity, and thrill, in waking, to find that they have been upon the verge of the great secret. In snatches, they learn something of the wisdom which is of good, and more of the mere knowledge which is of evil. They penetrate, however, rudderless or compassless into the vast ocean of the "light ineffable", and again, like the adventures of the Nubian geographer, "agrees sent mare Tenenbaum, quid in EO asset exploratory". We will say then, that I am mad.

— Edgar Allan Poe

I have just now come from a party where I was its life and soul; witticisms streamed from my lips, everyone laughed and admired me, but I went away — yes, the dash should be as long as the radius of the earth's orbit ——————————— and wanted to shoot myself.

— Søren Kierkegaard

I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between... I am still so naïve; I know pretty much what I like and dislike; but please, don’t ask me who I am. A passionate, fragmentary girl, maybe?

— Sylvia Plath

I know the empathy borne of despair; I know the fluidity of thought, the expansive, even beautiful, mind that hypomania brings, and I know this is quicksilver and precious and often it's poison. There has always existed a sort of psychic butcher who works the scales of transcendence, who weighs out the bloody cost of true art.

— David Lovelace

I like my writing career, and it's progression, I'd rather be that slow moving tide that turns a mountain into a beautiful beach for all to enjoy, rather than a flash in a pan that yields no heat.

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

I’m a classic eccentric, living at the extremes of high mania and low mood. There’s no middle ground, only madness and sadness.

— Fennel Hudson