Schizophrenia Quotes · Page 3

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

— Jodi Picoult

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

— Elyn Saks

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

— Masatoshi Shibayama

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

— Marshall McLuhan

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

— Mark Vonnegut

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

— Philip K. Dick

Schizophrenia and excitement within us comes when / if the patient has a personality.

— Mak_786

“He's like several different people in one body. Isn't that a symptom of schizophrenia? I must Google that.”

— E.L. James

When I visited Guantanamo Bay several years ago, I met a team of psychiatrists treating the detainees. When I asked how they…

— Monica Crowley

I am a woman with chronic schizophrenia. I have spent hundreds of days in psychiatric hospitals. I could have ended up living…

— Elyn Saks

“What we call 'normal' is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection and other forms of destructive action on experience.”

— R.D. Laing

“My dad once told me life would get complicated when I grew up. I’m guessing this isn’t what he meant. My mom,…

— Susan Ee

“He had been diagnosed as suffering from atypical schizophrenia. Lord, how he hated that awful-sounding label. It conjured up visions of some…

— Etienne de L'Amour

I know," he said in almost bored contemplation. "My manners suck. I like to chalk it up to a dissatisfying childhood." "I'd…

— Darynda Jones

The whole schizophrenia angle interested me. When I first started working on it, I thought I would play up that angle more…

— Chester Brown

Some people say I'm unique, that there aren't other people with schizophrenia like me. Well, there are people like me out there,…

— Elyn Saks

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

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

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

— Darynda Jones

Hauntings are memes, especially pernicious thought contagions, social contagions that need no viral or bacterial host and are transmitted in a thousand…

— Caitlín R. Kiernan

There's been an amazing backlash for the last decade in America: political correctness. In many ways, I think that, while we've been…

— Ivan Reitman

“It's a very strange reality when you can't trust yourself. There's no foundation for anything. The faith I might have had in…

— Julia Walton

Sometimes it happens that you become one, in some rare moment. Watch the ocean, the tremendous wildness of it--and suddenly you forget…

— Anonymous

We don't see many films in which someone with schizophrenia is the main character.

— Brian Lindstrom

After a century of studying schizophrenia, the cause of the disorder remains unknown.

— Thomas R. Insel

“P.S. It's not schizophrenia, it's creativity, there is a difference. My voices go away after I let them tell their stories.”

— Ashley Newell

There are things that tend to moderate with age. Schizophrenia is somewhat like that.

— Anonymous

Schizophrenia is the name for a condition that most psychiatrists ascribe to patients they call schizophrenic.

— R. D. Laing

It turns out I have clinical schizophrenia. The unborn chicken voices were telling me to kill my family.

— Thom Yorke

“Minds that have withered into psychosis are far more terrifying than any character of fiction.”

— Christian Baloga

Please hear this: There are not ‘schizophrenics,’ there are people with schizophrenia.

— Elyn Saks

“In my opinion, our health care system has failed when a doctor fails to treat an illness that is treatable.”

— Kevin Alan Lee

“When had I stopped being a person with Paranoid Schizophrenia, and become a Paranoid Schizophrenic; defined by my illness?”

— Michaela Haze

“I'd ask you to think outside the box on this, but it's obvious your box is broken. And has schizophrenia.”

— Ted Kosmatka

There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia,' but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event.

— R. D. Laing

I was diagnosed with everything from schizophrenia to multiple personality disorder.

— Darrell Hammond

We children of schizophrenics are the great secret keepers, the ones who don't want you to think that anything is wrong.

— Mira Bartok

I believe there is a reason such as autism, severe manic-depression, and schizophrenia remain in our gene pool even though there is…

— Temple Grandin

“Now, Emily didn't make a sound. There was something more defining about the soundless reality that condemned the paradigm of passion.”

— Allie Burke