Schizophrenia Quotes · Page 3

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.

— Margaret Atwood

“Schizophrenia is when the total personalities of your past lives or the memories of invading Spirits enter your body.”

— Raymond Holder

If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others.

— Philip K. Dick

Colds, ulcers, flu, and cancer are things we get. Schizophrenia is something we are.

— Mark Vonnegut

“Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy. [p. 32]”

— Marshall McLuhan

“Many DID patients have been misdiagnosed as schizophrenics and treated with neuroleptics.”

— Masatoshi Shibayama

The schizophrenic mind is not so much split as shattered. I like to say schizophrenia is like a waking nightmare.

— Elyn Saks

“Writing is successful schizophrenia because I’m paid to hear voices in my head.”

— Jodi Picoult

As well as being one of the worst things that can happen to a human being, schizophrenia can also be one of…

— Mark Vonnegut

“Can you smell his sweat? That peculiar goatish odor is trans-3-methyl-2 hexenoic acid. Remember it, it's the smell of schizophrenia.”

— Thomas Harris

I guess music, particularly the blues, is the only form of schizophrenia that has organised itself into being both legal and beneficial…

— Alexis Korner

When L.A.’s schizophrenia between Dreamland and Utopia was becoming socially manifest, the United States, which was always a place, went to war…

— Steve Erickson

“A term came to her that they used on occasion at the shelter: the double bind...They used the expression in much the…

— Chris Bohjalian

I believe that the human race has developed a form of collective schizophrenia in which we are not only the slaves to…

— David Icke

Conventional psychiatry has emphasized the genetic roots of psychosis based on the claim that twin and other studies show that schizophrenia is…

— Richard Bentall

“Life wasn’t perfect, but it wasn’t supposed to be. Eternal beauty could not exist if it were not for the face of…

— Allie Burke

You know, ever since man had any notion that some of his other people, his colleagues, could be different, could be strange,…

— Sherwin B. Nuland

“Dissociative symptoms—primarily depersonalization and derealization—are elements in other DSM-IV disorders, including schizophrenia and borderline personality disorder, and in the neurologic syndrome of…

— James A. Chu

Before I tell you, I have to know three things," I said. "Okay." "One, are you sitting down?" "Yes." "Two, are you…

— Darynda Jones

I spent a lot of time reading blogs by mothers who had children with varying degrees of neural dysfunction, from schizophrenia to…

— Vera Farmiga

So wie die Verruecktheit in einem hoeheren Sinn, der Anfang aller Weisheit ist, so ist die Schizophrenie der Anfang aller Kunst, aller…

— Hermann Hesse

There's a true schizophrenia where if you say to voters, you know, do you think the federal government spends too much money…

— Bill Gates

Schizoaffective disorder is a big mental mash-up of a disease. It combines just about every disorder, from depression, delusions, and paranoia to…

— Shawn Amos

It seemed to me the basic definition of mental illness, this persistent, painful inability to simply be with someone else. It might…

— Tracy Thompson

Schizophrenia is a successful attempt not to adapt to pseudo- social realities.

— R. D. Laing

Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.

— R. D. Laing

If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.

— Thomas Szasz

It's almost like schizophrenia the way I get ideas about things that are not really happening and just end up focusing on…

— Limmy

No one has schizophrenia, like having a cold. The patient has not "got" schizophrenia. He is schizophrenic.

— R. D. Laing

“It's only when a man doesn't feel that he's a man that he has to be a god.”

— Milton Rokeach

There is no difference between acute schizophrenia and a world at war.

— Gary Zukav

“You know... the thing that is so wrong about being mentally ill is the terrible price you have to pay for survival.”

— Joanne Greenberg

When we talk to god, it's prayer. When god talks to us, it's schizophrenia.

— Lily Tomlin

It's been insane. From Whitey Bulger to the Mad Hatter, you can imagine the schizophrenia.

— Johnny Depp

Knowing that you're crazy doesn't make the crazy things stop happening.

— Mark Vonnegut

Why is it that when we talk to God, it's called 'prayer,' but when God speaks to us, it's called schizophrenia?

— Henry Blackaby

Oh, and I certainly don't suffer from schizophrenia. I quite enjoy it. And so do I.

— Emilie Autumn

For schizophrenia, the recovery rate with drug therapy is under 15%. With nutritional therapy, the recovery rate is 80%.

— Abram Hoffer

In order for him to believe sincerely in eternity, others had to share in this belief, because a belief that no one…

— Victor Pelevin

“Am I a mindless fool? My life is a fragment, a disconnected dream that has no continuity. I am so tired of…

— Ross David Burke