Schizophrenia Quotes

Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy. (Marshall McLuhan)
If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. View quote
Thomas Szasz
There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia,' but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event. View quote
Ronald David Laing
Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia. View quote
E. L. Doctorow
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. View quote
John Forbes Nash
If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; If you talk to the dead, you are a schizophrenic. View quote
Thomas Szasz
If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia. View quote
Margaret Atwood
I believe there is a reason such as autism, severe manic-depression, and schizophrenia remain in our gene pool even though there is much suffering as a result. View quote
Temple Grandin
Psychiatrists look for twisted molecules and defective genes as the causes of schizophrenia, because schizophrenia is the name of a disease. If Christianity or Communism were called diseases, would they then look for the chemical and genetic "causes” of these "conditions?”. View quote
Thomas Szasz
Schizophrenia beats dining alone. View quote
Oscar Levant
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 lot of time talking to myself - I had this big dressing-up box and would just dress up as lots of characters and talk back to myself... Verging on schizophrenia, I suppose, if you analyse it carefully. (Natalie Dormer)
Most people, if you live in a big city, you see some form of schizophrenia every day, and it's always in the form of someone homeless. "Look at that guy - he's crazy. He looks dangerous.” Well, he's on the streets because of mental illness. He probably had a job and a home... View quote
Eric McCormack
I guess music, particularly the blues, is the only form of schizophrenia that has organised itself into being both legal and beneficial to society. View quote
Alexis Korner
The whole schizophrenia angle interested me. When I first started working on it, I thought I would play up that angle more than I ended up doing. The religious aspect of the story was also a draw. View quote
Chester Brown
The schizophrenic mind is not so much split as shattered. I like to say schizophrenia is like a waking nightmare. View quote
Elyn Saks
I am a woman with chronic schizophrenia. I have spent hundreds of days in psychiatric hospitals. I could have ended up living most of my life on a back ward, but things turned out quite differently. View quote
Elyn Saks
Please hear this: There are not 'schizophrenics.' There are people with schizophrenia. View quote
Elyn Saks
In many ways, I think that, while we've been remarkably violent in our media, there's been a real schizophrenia. In private, on the Internet, and on public-affairs shows or talk radio, we're way more explicit than we've ever been. View quote
Ivan Reitman
Acting is not that far from mental disease: An actor works on splitting his character into others. It is like a kind of schizophrenia. View quote
Vittorio Gassman
At the very moment when my ego is unprooted [uprooted? ] and freed of intellectual activities and values, the realization of what is still unknown and uncreated, the silent 'non-form' unity emerges, appearing as childish schizophrenia. The indefinable beginning takes form. View quote
Karel Appel
Schizophrenia is like love: there is no specifically schizophrenic phenomenon or entity; schizophrenia is the universe of productive and reproductive desiring machines, universal primary production as "the essential reality of man and nature" (Gilles Deleuze)
Evidence has... been adduced that schizophrenia is widespread in other kinds of human societies. ...and they form a substantial fraction of the clientele of the tribal shamans and healers. View quote
E. O. Wilson
The three extreme kinds of schizophrenia are unmistakable: the haunted paranoid surrounded by his imaginary community of spies and assassins, the clownish, sometimes incontinent hebephrenic, and the frozen catatonic. View quote
E. O. Wilson
They may ask why nature or God created such horrible conditions as autism, manic depression, and schizophrenia. However, if the genes that caused these conditions were eliminated there might be a terrible price to pay. View quote
Temple Grandin
Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair. View quote
Ronald David Laing