Quotes About Schizophrenics

#1. Is it still okay to make fun of schizophrenics? There's a little voice in my head that says no.

Dana Gould

#2. Paranoia, he said, was fundamentally egocentric, and every conspiracy theory served in some way to aggrandize the believer.
But he was also fond of saying, at other times, that even paranoid schizophrenics have enemies.

William Gibson

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

Mira Bartok

#4. Psychosis is a gross disturbance in an individual's ability to distinguish self from reality. For schizophrenics, the membrane between imagination and reality is so porous that having an idea and having an experience are not particularly different.

Andrew Solomon

#5. None other than the Skeptic's Dictionary points out an obvious and troubling irony: "When spoken by schizophrenics, glossolalia is recognized as gibberish. In charismatic Christian communities glossolalia is sacred and referred to as 'speaking in tongues' or having 'the gift of tongues.

John F. MacArthur Jr.

#6. her. I never felt properly sorry for schizophrenics, she thought, unable to escape the voices in their heads and fighting for their sanity with a maelstrom of noise all around them, making it impossible to think. No

Connie Willis

#7. Though many schizophrenics become curiously attached to their delusions, the fading of the nondelusional world puts them in loneliness beyond all reckoning, a fixed residence on a noxious private planet they can never leave, and where they can receive no visitors.

Andrew Solomon

#8. The way I see it, living in New Jersey is a challenge, what with the toxic waste and the eighteen wheelers and the armed schizophrenics. Connie Rosolli

Janet Evanovich

#9. I've seen schizophrenics who are so hopeless, you couldn't cheer them, and their lives are miserable and they end up as suicides. That's not right.

Jack Kevorkian

#10. Writers are nothing more than borderline schizophrenics who are able to control the voices.

Jennifer Salaiz

#11. With the advent of cell phones, especially with the very small microphone that attach to the cell phone itself, it's getting harder and harder I find, to differentiate between schizophrenics and people talking on a cell phone.

Bob Newhart

#12. Alma had told him once that to smell burning was a symptom schizophrenics suffered from, adding "but then they probably set fire to things quite often, so it's bound to be a tricky judgement call.

Alan Moore

#13. Chetta believed that most people who worked in the arts were high-functioning schizophrenics, and she was no different.

Stephen King

#14. It amazes me, every single time, to see so much certainty backed by so much ignorance and neglect on what is being believed and shared. The mass wisdom of the fools can only be compared to the egotistical need of schizophrenics with many imaginary friends.

Robin Sacredfire

#15. Do deaf schizophrenics hear voices in sign language?

Nick James

#16. Most films go out like skydivers who have had their chutes packed by a committee of blind schizophrenics.

William Monahan

#17. Please hear this: There are not 'schizophrenics.' There are people with schizophrenia.

Elyn Saks

#18. The margins of the space were bright without illuminating anything or casting shadows, sharp and terrible. It reminded her of the way schizophrenics and people suffering migraines would describe light as assaulting and dangerous.

James S.A. Corey

#19. It's getting harder and harder to differentiate between schizophrenics and people talking on a cell phone. It still brings me up short to walk by somebody who appears to be talking to themselves.

Bob Newhart

#20. schizophrenics can tickle themselves because of a problem with their timing that does not allow their motor actions and resulting sensations to be correctly sequenced.

David Eagleman

#21. You're breathing the same air as a bunch of pill-popping manic depressives, alcoholics, and schizophrenics. You've been drinking tea with a bunch of crazy teenage washouts. It seems I'm the only sane one here.

Kirkland Ciccone

#22. Many DID patients have been misdiagnosed as schizophrenics and treated with neuroleptics.

Masatoshi Shibayama

#23. Sharif gave instructions to his staff regarding snacks he wanted served to all of us - Sharif often asked for specific food items during meetings, as if it helped him concentrate his mind.

Husain Haqqani

#24. As soon as they leave, Leon says to me: I disagree, sir. There are people who aren't insane, and I'm one of them. People who generalize are mentally ill.

Milton Rokeach

#25. Appealing to the five senses is the feature that will always set writing apart from the visual media. A good writer will tell us what the world smells like, what the textures are, what the sounds are, what the light looks like, what the weather is.

Janet Fitch

#26. Looking back, I realized that we were being raised to be schizophrenic; an appearance of perfection was more important than genuine feelings

Tehmina Durrani

#27. My parents moved to Florida when I was 12, and my backyard was the Gulf of Mexico.

Sylvia Earle

#28. yes. Menace and danger, That's what passion is-dangerous love-love that put you at risk, that gets a hold of you and makes you do things you wouldn't normally do. It's the only love worth having..

Elliot Mabeuse

#29. Leon reads aloud from an article in the Reader's Digest about voting to select a national flower. Leon votes for dandelions. Joseph and Clyde vote for grass.

Milton Rokeach

#30. I've gotten over my shyness from many years of doing public events.

Alex Honnold

#31. Joseph goes to the Social Service Department. "Can I help you?" the secretary inquires. Joseph answers: "Yes, I am God. I've come to see about a release from the hospital.

Milton Rokeach

#32. I've always been at the intersection of computers and whatever they can revolutionize.

Jeff Bezos

#33. I thought it was foolish mumbo jumbo when I was alive - then I woke up dead.

C.V. Hunt

#34. You are the Fire Lily", said the Winterking softly. "And I am the Ice King. Does fire melt ice? Or ice melt fire? Or may they come together, fire and ice, neither melted nor quenched?

Alison Croggon

#35. In today's world, it is shortsighted to think that infectious diseases cannot cross borders. By allowing developing countries access to generic drugs, we not only help improve health in those nations, we also help ourselves control these debilitating and often deadly diseases.

Ron Wyden