Schizophrenia Stigma Quotes

#1. Listen less to your own thoughts and more to God's thoughts.

Francois Fenelon

#2. But she was gone, and Hattie wanted to give her babies names that weren't already chiseled on a headstone in the family plots in Georgia, so she gave them names of promise and of hope, reaching forward names, not looking back ones. The

Ayana Mathis

#3. I had my eyes closed in the dark, I sighed a million sighs, I told a million lies, to myself, to myself.

Van Morrison

#4. The drug I take is called schizophrenia, among other labels, which I desperately want to put away. I want to put the drug of schizophrenia down, and I want to put down the stigma surrounding its label.

Jonathan Harnisch

#5. I read once that certain musical compositions (by Bach? by Beethoven? I forget) sounded like the efforts of the human soul to explain itself to God. If ever I find my perfect combination of brown and lilac, I'll feel as though I've thus explained myself.

Gerald Murnane

#6. Some people say I'm unique, that there aren't other people with schizophrenia like me. Well, there are people like me out there, but the stigma is so great that they don't come forward.

Elyn Saks

#7. Even the most skillful deceit is wasted on a man's mother.

John Whitbourn

#8. Too often I am jealous and my jealousy leads me to say things-things-that I regret.

Kate Mosse

#9. He slipped the baldric over his head, laying the leather across his shoulder and the scabbard at his hip. Knowing the weapon a little more intimately, now, he had a new respect for it.

Terry Goodkind

#10. All hopes of eternity and all gain from the past he would have given to have her there, to be wrapped warm with him in one blanket, and sleep, only sleep. It seemed the sleep with the woman in his arms was the only necessity.

D.H. Lawrence