Top 106 Schizophrenia Quotes & Sayings

It turns out I have clinical schizophrenia. The unborn chicken voices were telling me to kill my family.

There are things that tend to moderate with age. Schizophrenia is somewhat like that.

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

My parents are psychologists. My father is a specialist with schizophrenia and my mother works with mostly children.

I was diagnosed with everything from schizophrenia to multiple personality disorder.

We do not know with any of these neuropsychiatric disorders what the ultimate basis is. Let's say you could find that too much of protein X was involved in schizophrenia. Would you then know what schizophrenia is? You would not.

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.

Schizophrenia demons live in my head.

Hollywood's schizophrenia over guns is matched only by their attitude toward taxes. Ever wonder why they film in Vancouver so often? It ain't for the beaches, I can tell you.

I would not dare to say that there is a direct relation between mathematics and madness, but there is no doubt that great mathematicians suffer from maniacal characteristics, delirium and symptoms of schizophrenia.

There is almost no evidence that diagnoses such as 'schizophrenia' and 'bipolar disorder' correspond to discrete entities ('natural kinds' in the language of philosophy).

My father is schizophrenia, but he's good people.

It's almost like schizophrenia the way I get ideas about things that are not really happening and just end up focusing on them.

I did have friends who have suffered from schizophrenia and mild dissociative identity disorder, as well as more extreme cases of social anxiety disorder.

I would not dare to say that there is a direct relation between mathematics and madness, but there is no doubt that great mathematicians suffer from maniacal characteristics, delirium, and symptoms of schizophrenia.

There is no difference between acute schizophrenia and a world at war.

I believe there is a reason such as autism, severe manic-depression, and schizophrenia remain in our gene pool even though there is much suffering as a result.

When we talk to god, it's prayer. When god talks to us, it's schizophrenia.

Our family suffers from a hereditary condition called, generally, mental illness. Specifically, multiple family members in successive generations have suffered from either bipolar disorder or schizophrenia.

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.

These disorders - schizophrenia, Alzheimer's, depression, addiction - they not only steal our time to live, they change who we are.

When I visited Guantanamo Bay several years ago, I met a team of psychiatrists treating the detainees. When I asked how they distinguished between, say, schizophrenia or bipolarity and a bedrock religious commitment to holy war, they couldn't answer.

Schizophrenia beats dining alone.

Schizophrenia --its nature, etiology, and the kind of therapy to use for it--remains one of the most puzzling of the mental illnesses. The theory of schizophrenia presented here is based on communications analysis, and specifically on the Theory of Logical Types. From this theory and from observations of schizophrenic patients is derived a description, and the necessary conditions for, a situation called the "double bind"--a situation in which no matter what a person does, he "can't win." It is hypothesized that a person caught in the double bind may develop schizophrenic symptoms

Schizophrenia runs in the family.

No one has schizophrenia, like having a cold. The patient has not "got" schizophrenia. He is schizophrenic.

I don't find anything upsetting or gross or degrading about fighting with a mental illness: Bipolar or Schizophrenia.

Oh, and I certainly don't suffer from schizophrenia. I quite enjoy it. And so do I.

Vulnerable is a catch-all word like "love" and "schizophrenia."

I can't imagine a secular life, a spiritual life, an intellectual life, a physical life. I mean, we would be completely wrought with schizophrenia, wouldn't we?

Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.

Schizophrenia is a successful attempt not to adapt to pseudo- social realities.

I believe that the human race has developed a form of collective schizophrenia in which we are not only the slaves to this imposed thought behavior, but we are also the police force of it.

Colds, ulcers, flu, and cancer are things we get. Schizophrenia is something we are.

It's been insane. From Whitey Bulger to the Mad Hatter, you can imagine the schizophrenia.

I am a woman with chronic schizophrenia. I have spent hundreds of days in psychiatric hospitals. I could have ended up living most of my life on a back ward, but things turned out quite differently.

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.

Acting is not that far from mental disease: An actor works on splitting his character into others. It is like a kind of schizophrenia.

If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.

I guess music, particularly the blues, is the only form of schizophrenia that has organised itself into being both legal and beneficial to society.

Schizophrenia is hearing voices, not doing voices.

Particularly with schizophrenia you see a lot of concern that these people could escape and kill people, or they could threaten our political order.

Some call it schizophrenia, I call it a career

Psychiatrists look for twisted molecules and defective genes as the causes of schizophrenia, because schizophrenia is the name of a disease. If Christianity or Communism were called diseases, would they then look for the chemical and genetic "causes" of these "conditions"?

An old joke puts its thus, "when a man speaks to a god its prayer , when a god speaks to a man its schizophrenia"... Many people hear voices without suffering any of the debilitating and dysfunctional effects associated with schizophrenia, some treat these as sources of inspiration of develop religious ideas around them, others become mediums or occultists.

I think part of why schizophrenia got linked to civil rights protest in the '60s was because mainstream society was coding threats against the smooth running of the state as insanity and treating it as such, and so as that happens you see the evolution of a process in which people with schizophrenia are increasingly feared and our hospitals, particularly the kind of hospital that I look at in the book become to look more and more like prisons, to the point where many of them including the one I talk about actually become prisons.

After a century of studying schizophrenia, the cause of the disorder remains unknown.

The schizophrenic mind is not so much split as shattered. I like to say schizophrenia is like a waking nightmare.

As well as being one of the worst things that can happen to a human being, schizophrenia can also be one of the richest learning and humanizing experiences life offers.

Please hear this: There are not ‘schizophrenics,’ there are people with schizophrenia.

We're all divided souls, we've got two natures in us, You measure schizophrenia not by the fact that you're divided but how well the divisions speak to one another.

One sees in Latin America, and also elsewhere, among many Catholics a certain schizophrenia between individual and public morality.

Schizophrenia is the name for a condition that most psychiatrists ascribe to patients they call schizophrenic.

We don't see many films in which someone with schizophrenia is the main character.

In order for him to believe sincerely in eternity, others had to share in this belief, because a belief that no one else shares is called schizophrenia.

If an autoimmune disease can create symptoms that look exactly like schizophrenia, that raises the question, what is schizophrenia? And are there forms of schizophrenia that are caused by other types of autoimmune disease?

Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy.

My dad died, and he wasn't in my life because he had schizophrenia, so it's been something that my entire family has been fighting against since I can remember.

There may be an evolutionary advantage for schizophrenia genes during famine.

I used to worry when I was a teenager, even into my twenties, after I'd heard something about schizophrenia and how people just suddenly become schizophrenic that I was insane.