Schizophrenia Quotes · Page 3

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

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

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

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

“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

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

— Chester Brown

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

I'd like to create a lovable character for schizophrenia; it doesn't have a celebrity spokesperson because by the time somebody's schizophrenic they've…

— Maria Bamford

“Patients with DID or other dissociative disorders may be misdiagnosed as Schizophrenics on account of their auditory hallucinations, distrust, feelings of depersonalization,…

— Etzel Cardena

Acting is not that far from mental disease: An actor works on splitting his character into others. It is like a kind…

— Vittorio Gassman

Particularly with schizophrenia you see a lot of concern that these people could escape and kill people, or they could threaten our…

— Jonathan Michel Metzl

“So the poor translator must not just go back and forth between two languages, but if he is worthy of his calling…

— Gregory Rabassa

There are people who are convinced supernatural forces are at work, but I've no idea. I suspect 'possession' might be a psychological…

— Anthony Hopkins

Psychiatrists look for twisted molecules and defective genes as the causes of schizophrenia, because schizophrenia is the name of a disease. If…

— Anonymous

I'm a quasi-only child. With my brother and sister, I've more of a tendency to be semi-maternal. So, yes, I spent a…

— Natalie Dormer

I tell patients that tranquilizers alone never cure anyone. They merely reduce the intensity of the symptoms and make life slightly more…

— Abram Hoffer

Living with bipolar, schizophrenia or any other mental condition takes a recognition that one has a chronic condition that needs managing. The…

— Stephen Fry

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

— Tracy Thompson

An old joke puts its thus, "when a man speaks to a god its prayer , when a god speaks to a…

— Peter J. Carroll

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

— Darynda Jones

“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

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

— Lily Tomlin

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

— Joanne Greenberg

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

“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

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 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

There are not schizophrenics. There are people with schizophrenia and these people may be your spouse, they may be your child, they…

— Elyn Saks

“Creating stories is like breathing for me. With one foot or at least a toe always grounded in my imagination, I am…

— Y.L. Cantrell