Hans Christian Andersen Quotes

Western man is schizophrenic.

'Session 9' can be interpreted in different ways. You can get the sense that Gordon breathes in an evil spirit but can also be read as a much more clinical movie that shows a man who becomes unhinged or may be going mad. An inspiration was Nicolas Roeg's 'Don't Look Now.'

The difference between how you look and how you see yourself is enough to kill most people. And maybe the reason vampires don’t die is because they can never see themselves in photographs or mirrors.

That's the terrible part. I swear to God I'm a madman.

In a way, everybody is wounded from the wound of the real. This phenomenon is similar to madness. The mad person is wounded by his or her distorted relationship to the real.

In my madness I see your face in mine.

I got a new shadow. I had to get rid of the other one – it wasn’t doing what I was doing.

It's almost like being trapped in some other form. The real me is so different from the way I look on the outside.

Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo

Essentially, I'm a very real person; good and bad. And the public image is one of being very good, I suppose. But one of the reasons I'm attracted to people like Martin Luther King, Jr., Gandhi, Christ, to pacifism, is because naturally, I'm the guy that would not turn the other cheek - but, when people see you're attracted to that, they think you are that.

But I'm Crazy. I swear to God I am.

Busted. I'm a monster. Jev is my deceptively harmless-and shockingly handsome-alter ego.

Maybe he was real. Maybe I'd made him up. Either way, he didn't think I needed him anymore. Maybe he was right.

In short: I felt my existence was tainted, in some subtle but essential way.

We do. Or re-create the ones we have, and project. My whole life is projection.

Too sick and freaked out not to want a bullet for every passer by, too sick and freaked out to breathe, too sick and freaked out to care, too sick and freaked out to think of anything but the annihilation of my mind and denial of my life. So sick and freaked out that I think everyone is my friend.

It is madness. And if you don't know who you are, or if your real self has drifted away from you with the undertow, madness at least gives you an identity. It's the same with self-loathing. You're probably just normal and normal-looking but that's not a real identity, not the way ugliness is. Normality, just accepting that you're probably normal-looking, lacks the force field of self-disgust. If you don't know who you are, madness gives you something to believe in.

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

Did you ever wonder if the person in the puddle is real, and you're just a reflection of him?

It was the first time that I came face to face with madness and feared it and was fascinated by it.

We can't tell our life from our wish

There's a moment for everyone when you fall into your own shadow and the fact is that it's your shadow and you're forced to live in it. And this is nothing to celebrate or not celebrate. It simply is.

I wouldn't mind leaving myself behind if I could, but I don't know the way out.

If I cannot live with myself, there must be two of me: the 'I' and the 'self' that 'I' cannot live with. Maybe, I thought, only one of them is real.

Tyrion wondered what it would be like to have a twin, and decided that he would rather not know. Bad enough to face himself in a looking glass every day.