Terry Eagleton Quotes

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.

A schizophrenic war is not an easy thing to deal with.

Oh, and I certainly don't suffer from schizophrenia. I quite enjoy it. And so do I.

Schizophrenia is a successful attempt not to adapt to pseudo- social realities.

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.

I must have been heavily schizophrenic all my life. The me who hears what the other me can't play is the dominant one.

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

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

Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.

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.

... a paranoid person with delusions.

Now, I'm no doctor, but I am on TV. And in my professional opinion, George W. Bush is a paranoid schizophrenic. ...

Some call it schizophrenia, I call it a career

First sign of madness, talking to your own head.

My name is Stephen Leeds, and I am perfectly sane. My hallucinations, however, are all quite mad.

But yet I am firmly persuaded that a great deal of consciousness, every sort of consciousness, in fact, is a disease.

I have seen mad people, and I have known some who were quite intelligent, lucid, even clear-sighted in every concern of life, except on one point. They could speak clearly, readily, profoundly on everything; till their thoughts were caught in the breakers of their delusions and went to pieces there, were dispersed and swamped in that furious and terrible sea of fogs and squalls which is called MADNESS.

Psychotic hallucinations, whether they are visual or vocal, they address you. They accuse you. They seduce you. They humiliate you. They jeer at you. You interact with them.

He wrote on a piece of paper with his pencil. Psychosis: out of touch with reality. Since then, I have been trying to find out what reality is, so that I can touch it.

When a man says that he is Jesus or Napoleon, or that the Martians are after him, or claims something else that seems outrageous to common sense, he is labeled psychotic and locked up in a madhouse. Freedom of speech is only for normal people.

This clarity made me able to behave normally, which posed some interesting questions. Was everybody seeing this stuff and acting as though they weren't? Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act? If some people didn't see these things, what was the matter with them? Were they blind or something? These questions had me unsettled.

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

My mother is schizophrenic. I would love to be brave enough to learn more about it. I try to understand her, I try to be positive about it. She can be so absent and tired by her medication; sometimes she's so lucid, funny, and smart.