Schizophrenia Quotes

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

  Thomas Szasz

  Depression, Prayer, Humorous

  The Second Sin "Schizophrenia" (1973)

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• Schizophrenia beats dining alone.

  Oscar Levant

  Funny, Humor, Dining Alone

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Mark Vonnegut

  Crazy, Knowing, Happenings

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

  Elyn Saks

  Mind, Splits, Waking

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

  Gary Zukav

  War, Differences, World

  Gary Zukav (2014). “The Seat of the Soul: 25th Anniversary Edition with a Study Guide”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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

  Emilie Autumn

  Suffering, Enjoy

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• In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.

  George Orwell

  Birthday, Lying, Political Language

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.282, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  Philip K. Dick

  Inspirational, Life, Optimistic

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• Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Writing, Form, Ragtime

  Interview in "Writers at Work" (The Paris Review Interviews), 8th Series, 1988.

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• Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.

  Oscar Levant

  Funny, Humorous, Flower

  "Fictional character: Jerry Sunborne". "Things We Lost in the Fire", www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• As well as being one of the worst things that can happen to a human being, schizophrenia can also be one of the richest learning and humanizing experiences life offers.

  Mark Vonnegut

  Mental Illness, Worst, Wells

  Mark Vonnegut (2011). “The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity”, p.223, Seven Stories Press

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• Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.

  R. D. Laing

  Understanding, Despair, Understood

  The Divided Self (1960) ch. 2

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

  Mira Bartok

  Children, Thinking, Secret

  Mira Bartok (2011). “The Memory Palace”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• The ever quickening advances of science made possible by the success of the Human Genome Project will also soon let us see the essences of mental disease. Only after we understand them at the genetic level can we rationally seek out appropriate therapies for such illnesses as schizophrenia and bipolar disease.

  James D. Watson

  Essence, Bipolar, Levels

  "Watson retires". Prof. James D. Watson's statement on blacks and whites just before his retirement from the post of Chancellor of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York State, www.theguardian.com. October 25, 2007.

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• Schizophrenia is hearing voices, not doing voices.

  Maria Bamford

  Voice, Hearing, Hearing Voices

  "Stand-up Comedy and Mental Illness: A Conversation with Maria Bamford". Interview with David Haglund, www.slate.com. May 10, 2012.

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• These disorders - schizophrenia, Alzheimer's, depression, addiction - they not only steal our time to live, they change who we are.

  Edward Boyden

  Motivation, Inspiration, Alzheimer's

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• Schizophrenia demons live in my head.

  Wesley Willis

  Demon

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• Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy.

  Marshall McLuhan

  May, Literacy, Consequence

  Marshall McLuhan, W. Terrence Gordon, Elena Lamberti, Dominique Scheffel-Dunand (2011). “The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man”, p.327, University of Toronto Press

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• If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; if God talks to you, you are a schizophrenic.

  Thomas Szasz

  God, Madness, Schizophrenic

  The Second Sin (1973) "Schizophrenia"

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• I would not dare to say that there is a direct relation between mathematics and madness, but there is no doubt that great mathematicians suffer from maniacal characteristics, delirium and symptoms of schizophrenia.

  John Forbes Nash

  Math, Suffering, Doubt

  Statement of 1996, as quoted in "Dr. Riemann's Zeros" by Karl Sabbagh, (p. 88), 2003.

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• So wie die Verruecktheit in einem hoeheren Sinn, der Anfang aller Weisheit ist, so ist die Schizophrenie der Anfang aller Kunst, aller Phantasie. (As insanity in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom, so is schizophrenia the beginning of all art, all fantasy.)

  Hermann Hesse

  Art, Insanity, Fantasy

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

  Abram Hoffer

  Recovery, Drug, Rate

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

  Elyn Saks

  People, Please, Schizophrenic

  "What's It Like To Have A Psychotic Episode?". Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. February 6, 2013.

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

  Darrell Hammond

  Personality, Disorder, Multiple

  "Darrell Hammond Performed on 'SNL' Same Week He Was Taken From NBC in Straitjacket" by Lindsay Powers, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 26, 2011.

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

  Mark Vonnegut

  Cancer, Flu, Ulcers

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