Delusion Quote by Andrew Solomon

A schizophrenic is a person who already has a natural tendency to absent himself from this world.

— Paulo Coelho

No one knows loneliness like an atheist. When an average person feels isolated, he can call through the depths of his soul to One…

— Jeffrey Lang

The sick individual finds himself at home with all other similarly sick individuals. The whole culture is geared to this kind of pathology. The…

— Erich Fromm

“The "pathology of normalcy" rarely deteriorates to graver forms of mental illness because society produces the antidote against such deterioration. When pathological processes become…

— Erich Fromm

People living alone get used to loneliness.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Loneliness is such an omnipotent and painful threat to many persons that they have little conception of the positive values of solitude and even,…

— Rollo May

Schizophrenia beats being alone.

— Anonymous

The abhorrence of loneliness is as natural as wanting to live at all.

— Beryl Markham

A life without a lonely place, that is, a life without a quiet center, easily becomes destructive. When we cling to the results of…

— Henri Nouwen

I think mental illness or madness can be an escape also. People don't develop a mental illness because they are in the happiest of…

— John Forbes Nash, Jr

“Everyone is schizophrenic. They feel so insignificant they fear they’ll absorb the personalities of those around them and almost everything they say is an…

— U.V. Ray

of all the deprivations which afflict humankind, none is more dreadful than loneliness. A corrosive, it eats the heart out. People were meant to…

— Zelda Popkin