Quotes About Schizoid

#1. I feel like schizoid is a precursor to schizophrenia or manic depression. I feel like I'm manic. I have parts of schizoid, parts of Asperger's. I'm a smorgasbord of neuroses.

Jim Shaw

#2. Unfortunately, we are a species with schizoid tendencies, and like an old lady who has to share her house with a growing and destructive group of teenagers, Gaia grows angry, and if they do not mend their ways she will evict them.

James E. Lovelock

#3. The conceptual artist Ai WeiWei illustrates the schizoid society that rapid change has produced - sometimes by reassembling Ming-style furniture into absurd and useless arrangements, or by carefully painting and antiquing a Coca-Cola logo on an ancient Chinese pot.

Arne Glimcher

#4. The need to create a citadel in which to hide from the world is characteristic of people with a schizoid disposition

Anthony Stevens

#5. Drawing architecture is a "schizoid" act: it involves reducing the world to a piece of paper.

Eduardo Souto De Moura

#6. You're aberrated in one way," he said to Will. "I'm aberrated in another. A schizoid (isn't that what you are?) and, from the other side of the world, a paranoid. Both of us victims of the same twentieth-century plague. Not the Black Death, this time; the Grey Life.

Aldous Huxley

#7. There's a schizoid streak within the family anyway so I dare say that I'm affected by that. The majority of the people in my family have been in some kind of mental institution, as for my brother he doesn't want to leave. He likes it very much.

David Bowie

#8. In the 19th century inhumanity meant cruelty; in the 20th century it means schizoid self-alienation.

Erich Fromm

#9. In describing one way of going mad, I shall try to show that there is a comprehensible transition from the sane schizoid way of being-in-the-world to a psychotic way of being-in-the-world.

R.D. Laing

#10. The schizoid man is the natural product of the technological man. It is one way to live and is increasingly utilized and it may explode into violence.

Rollo May

#11. Schizoid behavior is a pretty common thing in children. It's accepted, because all we adults have this unspoken agreement that children are lunatics.

Stephen King

#12. Narcissism, detachment, schizoid personality, sociopath - these things run rampant in the human race in varying degrees.

C.C. Hunter

#13. Reason flows from the blending of rational thought and feeling. If the two functions are torn apart, thinking deteriorates into schizoid intellectual activity and feeling deteriorates into neurotic life-damaging passions.

Erich Fromm

#14. To those of us who survived [ ... ], it also means that we have learned to stand outside our history and watch it, without feeling too much. A little schizoid.

Thomas Pynchon

#15. Warhol was a prime example of a schizoid person. Maybe he had Asperger's, or maybe he was just an amorous human being on earth.

Jim Shaw

#16. I am not schizoid. A little manic-depressive, maybe."
"'Know thyself.'"
"We try, sir.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#17. You do not need to look or be anorexic to be successful in Hollywood. The range of what's acceptable is a lot larger than what people believe.

Zooey Deschanel

#18. Understanding, perhaps, but understanding is just a word. No one can understand another person unless he is that other person.

Jose Saramago

#19. There come nought out of the sacke but what was there.

George Herbert

#20. If a translation doesn't have obvious writing problems, it may seem quite all right at first glance. We readers, after all, quickly adapt to the style of a translator, stop noticing it, and get caught up in the story.

Lydia Davis

#21. I grew up in Bulgaria in a small city on the Black Sea Coast, so I was very interested in the sea, marine life, and everything related to it. But it was also a very dark place at night, so I could see the stars. And I just got very interested in it.

Dimitar Sasselov

#22. There is a huge wave of interest in happiness among researchers. There is a lot of happiness coaching. Everybody would like to make people happier.

Daniel Kahneman

#23. It's so easy for people to stick a label on you, and then that taints everything you touch.

Anton Corbijn

#24. As long as we take thought, we will continue to matter.

Vivian Amis

#25. Acknowledge the good around you and the simplicity it takes to recognise it

Moonish Sood

#26. Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.

Marilyn Manson

#27. The tattoo can only exist as part of the skin, as a drawing always is an incision in the material and therefore cannot be parted from it.

Antoni Tapies

#28. I have such bad insomnia and sometimes with insomnia, you can sort of relax and read a book, but anyone who has insomnia knows that other times, it generates incredible anxiety.

Jai Uttal

#29. Ideas are the currency of the new economy.

Richard Florida