Marlin Fitzwater Quotes

I'm not a paranoid schizophrenic.

My experience is that when one is in psychosis, you're on a mission and nothing is going to stop you. At some level your brain is telling you you probably shouldn't be doing this, but you're on a mission.

Never get into an argument with a schizophrenic person and say, 'Who do you think you are?'

Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.

Schizophrenia is hearing voices, not doing voices.

Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions.

... the work of lunatics.

Now, I'm no doctor, but I am on TV. And in my professional opinion, George W. Bush is a paranoid schizophrenic. ...

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

A schizophrenic is a person who already has a natural tendency to absent himself from this world.

I only hear my own voice. When you start hearing other voices, then it's time to worry.

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

I must have been heavily schizophrenic all my life. The me who hears what the other me can't play is the dominant one.

I went to a doctor and told him I felt normal on acid, that I was a light bulb in a world of moths. That is what the manic state is like.

In my most psychotic stages, I imagine myself chewing on sidewalks and bulging and swallowing sunlight and clouds.

Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then.

The schizophrenic has no sense of humor. His world is a constantly daunting, unfriendly place.

In general, people are afraid to acknowledge hallucinations because they immediately see them as a sign of something awful happening to the brain, whereas in most cases they're not.

... madness entered my veins.

… the ravings of a maniac

He suffers from delusions of adequacy.

I was the most important person of the world, and people like the Pope would be just like enemies, who would try to put me down in some way or another, or the president. People are always selling the idea that people who have mental illness are suffering.

For like four or five months of my life I was too scared to like, move around and reach out for things because I was worried that I'd my hands would run into glass, like I could reach up and if I reached up and knocked on the air it would make a noise. I couldn't look at the sky because I was worried that I see a crack.

My mother became mentally unwell with schizophrenia when I was in my teens... We couldn't watch television because she thought the people on TV were sending her messages. She thought there were hidden cameras everywhere, so we had to have the curtains drawn.

He wrote on a piece of paper with his pencil. Psychosis: out of touch with reality. Since then, I have been trying to find out what reality is, so that I can touch it.