Bill Moyers Quotes

Delusional people tend to believe in what they're doing.

He suffers from delusions of adequacy.

He had delusions of adequacy.

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

... a paranoid person with delusions.

Everyone becomes psychotic in his or her own ways.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

I lived so completely in my mind - a place of unchecked delusion and complete fantasy!

Paranoia can be such a powerful hallucinogen if you're not careful - but it's great to kind of recognize it as that.

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

I just love the delusional, hallucinatory qualities of sleep deprivation. I can't get enough of it.

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

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.

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.

Insanity is just a state of mind.

You don’t experience anxiety unless you’re attached to a thought that isn’t true for you. It’s that simple.

It took less than half a second for me to realize that, as long as I was truly insane now, I might as well enjoy the delusions while they were pleasant.

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

What is madness? To have erroneous perceptions and to reason correctly from them.