Phylicia Rashad Quotes

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

When you are insane, you are busy being insane - all the time.

Possibly he knew, as he wrote this, that he was mad - because inside every madman sits a little sane man saying 'You're mad, you're mad.'

Perhaps I'm absolutely bonkers and don't know it. Perhaps I'm psychotically mental.

I'm a lunatic.

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.

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

I think insanity is the hardest thing to play.

What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.

I'm very much afraid of being mad - that's my one fear.

Crazy people don't sit around wondering if they're nuts.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

I'll say it loud and say it proud. I'm completely insane.

... madness entered my veins.

... the work of lunatics.

I can only presume that you have gone out of your mind.

I've always been interested in obsessive, insane people.

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

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.

Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.

I've been insane from a very early age.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

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.

You know how a lot of people say they could go crazy? Well, I feel I live very close to that line.

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