Quotes on Schizophrenia

Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be praying but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?

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?

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

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.

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

Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.

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

If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; if God talks to you, you are a schizophrenic.

Writing is a socially acceptable form of 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.

There are not schizophrenics. There are people with schizophrenia and these people may be your spouse, they may be your child, they may be your neighbor, they may be your friend, they may be your coworker.

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

Sometimes it happens that you become one, in some rare moment. Watch the ocean, the tremendous wildness of it--and suddenly you forget your split, your schizophrenia; you relax. Or, moving in the Himalayas, seeing the virgin snow on the Himalayan peaks, suddenly a coolness surrounds you and you need not be false because there is no other human being to be false to. You fall together.

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.