Cedric Bixler-Zavala Quotes

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

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.

This is a do-it-yourself test for paranoia: you know you've got it when you can't think of anything that's your fault.

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

I think paranoia can be instructive in the right doses. Paranoia is a skill.

Being slightly paranoid is like being slightly pregnant - it tends to get worse.

Everyone has their own special set of problems - in their own minds.

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

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.

And I know I'm paranoid and neurotic, I've made a career out of it.

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

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

I think that what people imagine they're going through is much worse than what they are going through.

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

Certainly in the theatre, you never have to get up before 10 A.M., and when filming, though you do have to get up terribly early, you usually get to lie down a lot during the working day. I thought my semi-bedridden existence was a choice. But now I think that actually, in fact, I must always have been depressed.

I've always wondered if, at some point, everything will snap, and it'll be like 'Alice in Wonderland,' where the delightfully mad people turn into sinister mad people.

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.

I know I am delusional at times, but I'm not completely-out-of-touch delusional.

Belief and delusion are incestuous siblings.

Madmen always think it's the others who are mad.

The problem with being nuts, she thought, is that you don't always feel as if you're nuts. Sometimes, in fact, you feel perfectly sane, and there just happens to be a trailer-shaped dragon crouching in the lot next door.

When you spend all your time worrying that the devil is right behind you, eventually you start seeing him whether he's there or not.

Depression, pain, and fear are gifts that say, "Sweetheart, take a look at your thinking in this moment. You're living in a story that isn't true for you." Living a lie is always stressful. And investigating a lie through The Work always leads you back to who you are. Who you are is not an option. You are love. It hurts to believe you're other than who you are, to live any story less than love.

Paranoia has a sharper taste if the danger is real.