R. D. Laing Quotes

No one has schizophrenia, like having a cold. The patient has not "got" schizophrenia. He is schizophrenic.

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.

He stares at me, and then leans back in his chair. "He's ill, Jacob." I say nothing. "He's a paragon schnitzophonic." "He's what?!" "Paragon schnitzophonic," repeats Uncle Al. "You mean paranoid schizophrenic?" "Sure. Whatever. But the bottom line is he's mad as a hatter.

There are not schizophrenics. There are people with schizophrenia and these people may be your spouse, they may be your child, they may be your neighbor, they may be your friend, they may be your coworker.

Schizophrenia is hearing voices, not doing voices.

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.

... the work of lunatics.

Some call it schizophrenia, I call it a career

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

The schizophrenic may indeed be mad. He is mad. He is not ill. I have been told by people who have been through the mad experience how what was then revealed to them was veritable manna from Heaven. The person's whole life may be changed, but it is difficult not to doubt the validity of such vision. Also, not everyone comes back to us again.

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

After a century of studying schizophrenia, the cause of the disorder remains unknown.

That Sid Vicious was obviously a schizophrenic, kind of a mean one too.

It's getting harder and harder to differentiate between schizophrenics and people talking on a cell phone. It still brings me up short to walk by somebody who appears to be talking to themselves.

I'm sure I'm a schizophrenic. The problem is I can't tell the difference between which one's which, which one is the real me.

If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.

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.

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

Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.

Schizophrenia demons live in my head.

I'm not a paranoid schizophrenic.

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.

As well as being one of the worst things that can happen to a human being, schizophrenia can also be one of the richest learning and humanizing experiences life offers.