Jim Woodring Quotes

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.

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

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

Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy.

Stasis is something that has marked my life since I was a boy growing up in Pittsburgh with my mother. It was the natural state that we existed in. For one thing, she suffered from a debilitating depression throughout my childhood, and depression is nothing if not static.

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

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.

Schizoaffective disorder is a big mental mash-up of a disease. It combines just about every disorder, from depression, delusions, and paranoia to mania, schizophrenia and hallucinations. My mother bounced between all of these regularly while raising me alone in our Hollywood home.

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

Schizophrenia demons live in my head.

The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts.

One of the things that frequently gets lost in descriptions of depression is that the depressed person often knows that it is a ludicrous condition to feel so disabled by the ordinary business of quotidian life.

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

I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people.

Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.

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

I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhoods and in all the lives that follow them, the mother represents madness. Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.

People with bipolar disorder have difficulty with boundaries.

Childhood bullying was a big part of my life.

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.

My mother didn't try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.

I myself have suffered periodically from hearing voices at night when I'm trying to sleep.

I've always been this insane. Isn't that interesting?

... 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. ...