Schizophrenic Quotes - Page 3

• Well, my brother was a schizophrenic, so I understood it in a different way from seeing my brother.

  Jeffrey Jones

  Brother, Vision, Different

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• He stares at me, and then leans back in his chair. "He's ill, Jacob." I say nothing. "He's a paragon schnitzophonic." "He's what?!" "Paragon schnitzophonic," repeats Uncle Al. "You mean paranoid schizophrenic?" "Sure. Whatever. But the bottom line is he's mad as a hatter.

  Sara Gruen

  Uncles, Mean, Mad

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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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• The schizophrenic is drowning in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight. Edgar Cayce made the same observation in his readings

  Joseph Campbell

  Reading, Water, Swim

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• Schizophrenic language has in this sense an interesting resemblance to poetry.

  Terry Eagleton

  Interesting, Language, Resemblance

  Terry Eagleton (2011). “Literary Theory: An Introduction”, p.138, John Wiley & Sons

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• I'm a paranoid schizophrenic. I am my own entourage!

  John Cusack

  Entourage, Paranoid, My Own

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• People say, "I have heart disease," not "I am heart disease." Somehow the presumption of a person's individuality is not compromised by those diagnostic labels. All the labels tell us is that the person has a specific challenge with which he or she struggles in a highly diverse life. But call someone "a schizophrenic" or "a borderline" and the shorthand has a way of closing the chapter on the person. It reduces a multifaceted human being to a diagnosis and lulls us into a false sense that those words tell us who the person is, rather than only telling us how the person suffers.

  Martha Manning

  Struggle, Heart, Justice

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• The schizophrenic may indeed be mad. He is mad. He is not ill. I have been told by people who have been through the mad experience how what was then revealed to them was veritable manna from Heaven. The person's whole life may be changed, but it is difficult not to doubt the validity of such vision. Also, not everyone comes back to us again.

  R. D. Laing

  People, Mad, Heaven

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• A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.

  Edward Albee

  Controlled

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• I would certainly not want my child to be schizophrenic. I wouldn't want him or her to be a criminal either. If, on the other hand, I had a deaf child, it would help that I have developed a real admiration for Deaf culture.

  Andrew Solomon

  Children, Real, Hands

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Wave particle duality is a core feature of our world. Or rather, we should say, it is a core feature of our mathematical descriptions of our world. But what is critical to note here is that, however ambiguous our images, the universe itself remains whole and is manifestly not fracturing into schizophrenic shards. It is this tantalizing wholeness and the thing itself that drives physicists onward like an eternally beckoning light that seems so teasingly near. It is always out of reach.

  Margaret Wertheim

  Our World, Light, Wave

  "The Grandeur and Limits of Science". Interview with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. February 16, 2017.

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• Only two of my personalities are schizophrenic, but one of them is paranoid and the other one is out to get him. Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

  Edgar Degas

  Two, Personality, Doe

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• If a person does not listen to the demands of their own spiritual and heart life and insists on a certain program, you're going to have a schizophrenic crackup. The person has put themselves off center. They have aligned themselves with a programmatic life and it's not the one the body is interested in at all.

  Joseph Campbell

  Spiritual, Heart, Doe

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• Because of Bluetooth headsets, it's getting more and more difficult to tell who's schizophrenic and who's on a conference call.

  Dana Gould

  Difficult, Conferences, Headset

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• I worked in a schizophrenic home when I was an undergrad. You learned to be jaded to the crazy things they would say to you, but there was one man that I always gave crazy respect to, even though he would say the exact same thing to me every single day.

  Matt de la Pena

  Crazy, Home, Men

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Cell phones have gotten so small, you can't tell who's a cell phone user and who's a schizophrenic.

  Bob Newhart

  Phones, Cells, Cell Phone

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• I know I'm not bipolar or schizophrenic, but this career allows you to explore, to take some facets of yourself and spin it.

  Jeff Daniels

  Careers, Bipolar, Facets

  "Jeff Daniels Talks RV". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. April 24, 2006.

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• The sick individual finds himself at home with all other similarly sick individuals. The whole culture is geared to this kind of pathology. The result is that the average individual does not experience the separateness and isolation the fully schizophrenic person feels. He feels at ease among those who suffer from the same deformation; in fact, it is the fully sane person who feels isolated in the insane society - and he may suffer so much from the incapacity to communicate that it is he who may become psychotic.

  Erich Fromm

  Home, Average, Sick

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