Camille Claudel Quotes

And I just can't live in this present. I would go mad if I did.

Schizoaffective disorder is a big mental mash-up of a disease. It combines just about every disorder, from depression, delusions, and paranoia to mania, schizophrenia and hallucinations. My mother bounced between all of these regularly while raising me alone in our Hollywood home.

... madness entered my veins.

I'm not a paranoid schizophrenic.

With mania, is it dangerous to ride that euphoric feeling. You feel very animated and creative; I would fill journals with drawings. It feels good and you want it to last, but it can lead to being delusional. The delusions can be as real as you thinking you can fly.

And I might add the confidence with which distracted persons do oftentimes, when they are awake, think, they see black fiends in places, where there is no black object in sight without them.

At night when I used to sleep, I was thinking all the time that shall I put a knife under my pillow.

Many nights, I would begin the evening fueled by caffeine and nicotine, which I needed to propel me out of torpor and hopelessness - only to overshoot into quaking, quivering anxiety.

I believed or thought I was disoriented and the victim of a bizarre dream and I believe I paced in and out of the room and possibly into one of the other rooms. I may have re-examined her, finally believing that this was true.

A paranoiac like a poet, is born, not made.

I don't think you ever know in yourself whether you have gone mad.

When I was in my early forties, I slept with a loaded gun under my bed. I'd become severely depressed in my thirties, and for almost a decade I spiraled down into paranoia, rage, self-loathing, and thoughts of suicide.

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

Let me be accurate in everything, for though you and I have seen some strange things together, you may at the first think that I, Van Helsing, am mad. That the many horrors and the so long strain on nerves has at the last turn my brain.

I'm sort of like a maniac, and I can't get out of it.

My heart pounds sickeningly and I turn pale... I often feel as if I were dead... I seem to be losing my mind.

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

A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.

I actually did go through severe depression and anxiety attacks where I couldn't sleep for weeks. It was definitely several months of being not myself.

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

It's amazing where the paranoid mind can take you.

Slow-motion suicide

Paranoia is dangerous for individuals and for nations as it gives rise to irrational behavior.

... a paranoid person with delusions.

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.