Chester Brown Quotes

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

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

If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; if God talks to you, you are a schizophrenic.

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.

When we talk to God, we're praying. When God talks to us, we're schizophrenic.

I'm not 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.

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.

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

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.

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

There are things that tend to moderate with age. Schizophrenia is somewhat like that.

Schizophrenia beats dining alone.

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

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.

Once you've been talked to by voices, it's not possible to go back to a world where talking voices is not possible.

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.

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.'

He was a psychotic. He was a borderline psychotic. He was a terrific, sensational actor, with a magical screen presence, you couldn't keep your eyes off him, but he was paranoid. He was sure everybody was out to get him.

I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.

Never get into an argument with a schizophrenic person and say, 'Who do you think you are?'

I always take a story that's kind of out there, like an urban myth. I take some possibility that people imagine, that they are familiar with, and try to turn it into a story.