Schizophrenic Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• I'm sure I'm a schizophrenic. The problem is I can't tell the difference between which one's which, which one is the real me.

  Nick Rhodes

  Real, Differences, Problem

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

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• I don't know what to do with myself between films. I end up doing unhealthy things like shopping or drinking. I'm pretty schizophrenic about it.

  Johnny Galecki

  Drinking, Shopping, Film

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The idea of stardom was difficult to grasp. It was like being schizophrenic; there was her, the woman on television, and the real me.

  Jessica Savitch

  Real, Ideas, Television

  Jessica Savitch (1983). “Anchorwoman”, Berkley

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• American housewives have not had their brains shot away, nor are they schizophrenic in the clinical sense. But if ... the fundamental human drive is not the urge for pleasure or the satisfaction of biological needs, but the need to grow and to realize one's full potential, their comfortable, empty, purposeless days are indeed cause for a nameless terror.

  Betty Friedan

  Brain, Full Potential, Needs

  BETTY FRIEDAN (1963). “The Feminine Mystique”

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• Western man is schizophrenic.

  J. B. Priestley

  Men, Western

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• I don't really have a realistic life. Anyway, I am a schizophrenic so there two persons in me. Because I am the person I put on for the public and the person that I am really . . . deep inside me. So I have to cover it all up with . . . glamour and all that bullshit . . . make-up . . . glamour, dresses, color, etc., etc. . . . trying to hide a very . . . fragile person, really . . . very vulnerable to attack.

  Bianca Jagger

  Bullshit, Trying, Vulnerable

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think our society is fragmented. Messages regarding human sexuality have always been mixed in America. We are a schizophrenic nation. We were founded initially by Puritans, who escaped repression only to establish their own. Then the founding fathers gave us the Constitution to separate church and state. But the one thing that got left out of all those laws was human sexuality.

  Hugh Hefner

  Father, Thinking, Church

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• I'm not sure if it's because I'm older and I'm thinking about family more, but I'm trying to set up this thing where I can play in one city for a month, and then write music for a couple months, then play in another city for a month, write music for a month. Just so it's not these two schizophrenic, Jekyll and Hyde kind of things; you don't have to be this monster. You get inspired and you can go write one song from that, and then you go back and play a few shows. If I could've done that in the 90s, I would have.

  Bjork

  Song, Couple, Writing

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• For me, glamour was always an escape. When I was a kid, my mother was hospitalized, she was schizophrenic. When she was sick, she wouldn't do her hair or her makeup, and she just looked terrible. But when she got on medication and she was happy, she would go to the beauty parlor and wear makeup. So I really associate glamour with being happy. If you put on high heels and lipstick or get a new outfit, you feel great. It's a celebration of loving yourself, and the whole ritual of it is so great.

  Amanda Lepore

  Mother, Kids, Makeup

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What is the impulse that drove to direct? To me, it seems so immense. Just having a rock 'n' roll band, or to go from the solitude of writing and to having to collaborate, is almost schizophrenic.

  Patti Smith

  Writing, Solitude, Impulse

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A schizophrenic war is not an easy thing to deal with.

  Andrew Niccol

  War, Easy, Deals

  "Andrew Niccol on his new drone-warfare drama Good Kill". Interview with Sam Fragoso, film.avclub.com. May 20, 2015.

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• I'm a schizophrenic mix of wannabe glamourpuss and absolute slob, and my style is very much magistrate-meets-barmaid.

  Jenny Eclair

  Style, Barmaids, Wannabes

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• I'm thought of as this pissy, complaining, freaked-out schizophrenic who wants to kill himself all the time.

  Kurt Cobain

  Music, Complaining, Want

  "Kurt Cobain, The Rolling Stone Interview: Success Doesn't Suck". Interview with David Fricke, www.rollingstone.com. January 27, 1994.

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• The creativity of people on the schizophrenic end of the human continuum is a creativity that springs from the inability to accept the standardized cultural denials of the real nature of ex­perience. And the price of this kind of almost "extra human" crea­tivity is to live on the brink of madness, as men have long known.

  Ernest Becker

  Spring, Real, Creativity

  Ernest Becker (2007). “The Denial of Death”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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• Now, I'm no doctor, but I am on TV. And in my professional opinion, George Bush is a paranoid schizophrenic.

  Bill Maher

  Doctors, Tvs, Opinion

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• Toni hears voices," said Trapp. "But who is this Dr. Ellsworth to tell her she's a schizophrenic? Maybe she just perceives better than the rest of us. Maybe the voices she hears are just uncommunicated ideas, floating free.

  Louis Sachar

  Ideas, Voice, Drs

  Louis Sachar (2011). “The Cardturner”, p.124, A&C Black

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• Welcome to the psychiatric hotline: if you are obsessive compulsive press one repeatedly. If you are schizophrenic listen closely and a little voice will tell you which number to press. If you have borderline personality disorder hang up; you have already pushed everybody's buttons.

  Barbara Oakley

  Voice, Numbers, Personality

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• For the moment, my life is a little schizophrenic.

  Danielle Steel

  Littles, Life Is, Moments

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• We say that one gets cancer, or a cold, or kidney disease. One would
  never think to say that one is cancer. But we say that one is depressed,
  or bipolar, or schizophrenic. A disease of the body is a condition. But
  a disease of the mind, we think, is a state of being. We no longer
  believe, as we did 250 years ago, that the mentally ill are animals,
  but we are not yet ready to grant that they are fully human either.

  Paul Gruchow

  Cancer, Believe, Thinking

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• Any actor who tells you that they have become the people they play, unless they’re clearly diagnosed as a schizophrenic, is bullshitting you.

  Gary Oldman

  Play, People, Actors

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• I'm not crazy and we're not alone. I told them, but the only two people who ever believed me were the schizophrenic abducted by aliens and his invisible friend. I told them!

  Gena Showalter

  Crazy, Two, People

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• Your ideal possession candidate's a thirteen-year-old recently orphaned schizophrenic girl three days away from her period on her way to see the shrink with whom she's romantically besotted.

  Glen Duncan

  Girl, Years, Three

  Glen Duncan (2007). “I, Lucifer: Finally, the Other Side of the Story”, p.26, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I tell patients that tranquilizers alone never cure anyone. They merely reduce the intensity of the symptoms and make life slightly more endurable. They create a better behaved, chronic dependent person. Only with orthomolecular treatment can the majority of schizophrenic patients hope to become well and normally independent.

  Abram Hoffer

  Life, Hope, Independent

  Abram Hoffer, CREATESPACE (2009). “Orthomolecular Medicine for Everyone: Megavitamin Therapeutics for Families and Physicians”, p.108, ReadHowYouWant.com

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