Top 100 Schizophrenic Quotes
#1. As well as being blind, Ma turned out to have the same mental illness that her mother had had. Between 1986 and 1990, she suffered six schizophrenic bouts, each requiring her to be institutionalised for up to three months.
Liz Murray
#2. Once labeled schizophrenic the pseudopatient was stuck with that label. - DAVID ROSENHAN,
Jon Ronson
#3. There is a risk of becoming linguistically schizophrenic. Because your brain is so fluent in both languages, it is fooled into thinking that the structure you have put together in the target language is correct merely because it is correct in the source language.
Geoffrey Samuelsson-Brown
#4. So companies have to be very schizophrenic. On one hand, they have to maintain continuity of strategy. But they also have to be good at continuously improving.
Michael Porter
#5. 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
#6. I wonder briefly whether a schizophrenic Buddhist would be At Two with the universe.
John Dolan
#7. A schizophrenic war is not an easy thing to deal with.
Andrew Niccol
#8. He's paragon schnitzophonic." "He's what?!" "Paragon schnitzophonic," repeats Uncle Al. "You mean paranoid schizophrenic?
Sara Gruen
#9. I think playing somebody who's schizophrenic is such a lesson as an actor. It gets you totally out of your comfort zone, because you can't rely on your technique, your external stuff. You've really gotta look inward, in a way.
Matt Dillon
#10. Serge's attention-deficit disorder was the first of many hyphens. Obsessive-compulsive, manic-depressive, anal-retentive, paranoid-schizophrenic. He was believed to be the only self-inflicted case of shaken-baby syndrome.
Tim Dorsey
#11. I'd like to create a lovable character for schizophrenia; it doesn't have a celebrity spokesperson because by the time somebody's schizophrenic they've lost all their teeth.
Maria Bamford
#12. Well, my brother was a schizophrenic, so I understood it in a different way from seeing my brother.
Jeffrey Jones
#13. To some extent, all authors are a little schizophrenic. We lead most of our lives in solitary confinement, living and breathing the books that we're writing.
Sophie Kinsella
#15. The funny thing about me is I'm kind of schizophrenic, because after four or five nights in a row of going out to parties, I just have to be alone. I hate people and feel like they're keeping me from what I really want to do, like write a fabulous novel, which I probably never will.
Bob Colacello
#16. We've gone down a road to which we don't have the answers for. That's why we have the schizophrenic decisions coming out of the Supreme Court that don't balance logically with one versus another decision.
Tom Coburn
#17. I'm not negative, pessimistic, angry, antisocial or schizophrenic. I'm a writer, and entitled to all that with pride.
Daniel Marques
#18. I've joked that I would have either become schizophrenic or an actress, but as an actress you can do both.
Carla Gugino
#19. There's a fine line between the Method actor and the schizophrenic.
Nicolas Cage
#20. My heart is a schizophrenic. One sentence is about how I hate him. The next is about how much I love him. It goes on like that, back and forth, pacing.
Lesley Anne Cowan
#21. I must have been heavily schizophrenic all my life. The me who hears what the other me can't play is the dominant one.
Alexis Korner
#22. 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
#24. My wife and I have a schizophrenic son. We didn't want to accept this for 30 years, so we put him under great pressure when we shouldn't have. He just wanted to be looked after, and we didn't respect that. We tried to make him independent.
James D. Watson
#25. I don't know anybody that's not emotionally unstable or schizophrenic.
Lauryn Hill
#26. If I lived in L.A., I'd be schizophrenic after a week.
Matthew Goode
#27. If you notice someone talking to a person you can't see, she may be a paranoid schizophrenic. But she may also just be psychic. The fact that you can't see the other half of the conversation doesn't mean it's not truly happening. That
Jodi Picoult
#28. I'm really schizophrenic about that, because on the one hand I would say, yes there is, there's something inherently, even violent about it, it's wild and raw and all this.
Lester Bangs
#29. When I came here, diagnosed as a schizophrenic, you spent days, months, talking to me and treating me as a human being. I was getting used to the life I'd decided to lead, to the other reality I'd created, but you wouldn't let me. I hated you, and now I love you.
Paulo Coelho
#30. Now, I'm no doctor, but I am on TV. And in my professional opinion, George Bush is a paranoid schizophrenic.
Bill Maher
#31. I wanted to cry. I wanted to hide. I wanted to drink. I wanted to... wrap my arms around him and never let go. My pulse felt erratic, and my thoughts jumbled around in my brain. I felt like a hyperactive, bipolar schizophrenic on crack.
Sibylla Matilde
#32. While technically Maryland remained in the Union during the Civil War, it was the border state, a schizophrenic no-man's-land with the North at its door and the South in its heart.
Sarah Vowell
#33. I have to kind of like switch heads. Sometimes I manage it seamlessly, and other times I feel rather all over the place. I feel a bit schizophrenic, like I have a split personality.
Emma Watson
#34. The poet is a master of language, the schizophrenic is a slave to it.
Hilde Bruch
#35. When had I stopped being a person with Paranoid Schizophrenia, and become a Paranoid Schizophrenic; defined by my illness?
Michaela Haze
#36. No one has schizophrenia, like having a cold. The patient has not "got" schizophrenia. He is schizophrenic.
R.D. Laing
#37. My sense of self has expanded and contracted like a schizophrenic accordion. I have questioned everything, and I have felt nothing. I have told the universe to f**k off, and I have fallen down weeping at its compassionate response.
Sera J. Beak
#38. I was looking to do something non-fiction because I had done a strip, 'My Mom Was a Schizophrenic.' I really enjoyed the process of doing that strip, despite its subject matter. To do it I'd had to do a lot of research and reading and I figured I'd like to do that again.
Chester Brown
#39. 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
#40. Schizophrenia is the name for a condition that most psychiatrists ascribe to patients they call schizophrenic.
R.D. Laing
#41. Never underestimate the mind of a schizophrenic for it is powerful and it is symbolic
Mk.
#42. You know what scares me? When you have to be nice to some paranoid schizophrenic, just because she lives in your head.
Steven Wright
#43. Here, too, we tend to be schizophrenic. We would all like to see government spending go down, provided it is not spending that benefits us. We would all like to see deficits reduced, provided it is through taxes imposed on others.
Milton Friedman
#44. Thank you, Facebook Quizzes, for helping me identify my Disney princess spirit, my old-person name, my mental disorder, and the color of my soul. All in one evening. Best, Ariel Harriet Schizophrenic Mauve.
Jen Hatmaker
#45. There's a tremendous need to implode the myths of mental illness, to put a face on it, to show people that a diagnosis does not have to lead to a painful and oblique life ... We who struggle with these disorders can lead full, happy, productive lives, if we have the right resources.
Elyn R. Saks
#46. [The Joker is a] psychopathic, mass murdering, schizophrenic clown with zero empathy ... Last week I probably slept an average of two hours a night. I couldn't stop thinking. My body was exhausted, and my mind was still going.
Heath Ledger
#47. Schizophrenic language has in this sense an interesting resemblance to poetry.
Terry Eagleton
#48. Hollywood was born schizophrenic. For 75 years it has been both a town and a state of mind, an industry and an art form.
Richard Corliss
#49. I'm jamming 'Black Sabbath Vol. 4' all the time. Zappa's 'Cruising With Ruben & The Jets.' A lot of Gong lately. Some Hawkwind. The Residents' 'Duck Stab' is amazing. Some Fugs. Lots of stuff, man. I'm pretty schizophrenic with records.
Ty Segall
#50. The way I write is that I'll actually have a conversation out loud with myself. In a weird way, I just kind of get schizophrenic and play two characters.
Zach Braff
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. I get readings, I sometimes get five a week. You'll feel like a schizophrenic by the end of that week. I don't know who I am any more. You'll be in conversation with a friend and start spitting out dialogue.
Josh Holloway
#54. I feel a little schizophrenic because my life is so totally different from here, obviously. And the French values are so different from American values.
Adrian Lyne
#55. We should be worrying about if you live in the city you're more likely to have anxiety or mood disorders and to be schizophrenic. More than the problems people have from social media.
Nick Harkaway
#56. The closest I ever came to a menage-a-trois was when I dated a schizophrenic.
Rita Rudner
#57. 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
#58. When we talk to God, we're praying, but when He talks to us we're Schizophrenic
Self
#59. Schizophrenic, alternating as it served her purposes between
Kristan Higgins
#60. Bipolar and paranoid. Throw in schizophrenic and you've hit the trifecta. They have padded rooms for people like you. Some of them even come with a view.
Cindy Gerard
#61. When I finally got to sleep I found Edmond and told him everything that happened, and he stayed with me for hours and whether I was dreaming or just borderline schizophrenic I didn't know and didn't care either. At
Meg Rosoff
#62. I've been called 'paranoid,' 'schizophrenic,' 'the wild child of Silicon Valley.'
John McAfee
#63. It's true what they say, you know: if you talk to God, you're religious; but if you hear from God, yor're schizophrenic.
Tim Downs
#64. Right now my career is totally schizophrenic, because when an American production like Hitchcock Presents asks to see my work I would never dream of showing them my independent films.
Atom Egoyan
#65. My style is definitely schizophrenic; it does change from day to day a lot. It depends on my mood: sometimes I'll be going through a girly, childlike stage and wear a pretty lace dress with a bow in my hair. Then sometimes I'll be moody and just wear black.
Amber Le Bon
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. Occasionally, family members may reach a point in which they cannot tolerate the odd behavior of the schizophrenic any longer. Often, this leads them to seek help. Other times, it causes said family member to walk away, like the complete raving jerk that she is.
Holly Schindler
#69. Upstaged by a schizophrenic, Dallas said. The story of my life.
Pat Conroy
#70. The schizophrenic mind is not so much split as shattered. I like to say schizophrenia is like a waking nightmare.
Elyn Saks
#71. I think every fiction writer, to a certain extent, is a schizophrenic and able to have two or three or five voices in his or her body. We seek, through our profession, to get those voices onto paper.
Ridley Pearson
#72. 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
#73. The White House has been noticeably schizophrenic on Guantanamo.
Jason Chaffetz
#74. Author' is just a fancy word for Schizophrenic people with good writing skills and cash.
Testy McTesterson
#75. Looking back, I realized that we were being raised to be schizophrenic; an appearance of perfection was more important than genuine feelings
Tehmina Durrani
#76. 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
#77. I backed away from his flash, my relationship with cameras contradictory at best, schizophrenic at worst.
Anne McAneny
#78. Schizophrenic is the best word - I change from day to day. I can be quite confusing. Indecisive, workaholic, and tired today.
Brian Molko
#79. I speak English with my dad and Swedish with my mom; it's quite schizophrenic.
Joel Kinnaman
#80. I always loved movies, especially watching some of my mom's films when I was younger, like 'Out of Darkness,' where she played a schizophrenic.
Evan Ross
#81. 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
#82. I've been called 'musically schizophrenic,' and some people think that's a cool thing.
Gary Clark Jr.
#83. If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; if God talks to you, you are a schizophrenic.
Thomas Szasz
#84. Few family members act on warning signs when they first present themselves in a schizophrenic patient. It is often quite hard to realize, in fact, that something is clinically wrong.
Holly Schindler
#85. That Sid Vicious was obviously a schizophrenic, kind of a mean one too.
Captain Beefheart
#86. How is it that we have sodomy protected under that due process but prostitution unprotected? It's schizophrenic.
Tom Coburn
#87. 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
#88. I'm thought of as this pissy, complaining, freaked-out schizophrenic who wants to kill himself all the time.
Kurt Cobain
#89. Writers Are Insane. For months we are lone wolves locked in our caves. Then overnight we become publicity hounds. It's a schizophrenic business.
Robert Mykle
#90. She was an extremely attractive woman if you liked the type, which could best be described as homicidal schizophrenic paranoiac with kittenish overtones.
Robert Sheckley
#91. I know exactly what he means. I had overheard Poirot talking to my parents. He was using words like "psychosis" and "schizophrenic". Words that people feel they have to whisper, or not repeat at all. The Mental-Illness-That-Must-Not-Be-Named.
Neal Shusterman
#92. O how we call each other names
You call me schizophrenic
I call you God
But we do agree on one
Deluded are we both.
Sunil Vidyarthi
#93. It's not possible to run away from yourself. Unless, of course, you're schizophrenic and can take holidays outside your mind.
Fennel Hudson
#94. The schizophrenic has no sense of humor. His world is a constantly daunting, unfriendly place.
Bob Newhart
#95. Cell phones have gotten so small, you can't tell who's a cell phone user and who's a schizophrenic.
Bob Newhart
#96. 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
#97. But had Minkowski and Einstein not recognized it long before us, our schizophrenic children would have taught us that space-time is a unity that precedes any separate understanding of either category; just as grasping this unity is a precondition for understanding causality.
Bruno Bettelheim
#98. Never get into an argument with a schizophrenic person and say, 'Who do you think you are?'
Ray Combs
#99. I think true romance is dry schizophrenic ... but life would be so boring without true love, so I guess you just roll with it.
Charli XCX
#100. Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be praying, but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?
Lily Tomlin