Linus Torvalds Quotes

I hear voices in my mind and you're worried that you're the freak,” he laughed.

I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create. Just on the other side of creativity is the nuthouse - and I often notice people looking at me strangely when I am talking out loud, but there is no other way.

I listen to the voices.

I have auditory hallucinations, I hear voices saying derogatory things, like I'm terrible and I'm going to die, and they're usually worse in the afternoon.

The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.

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

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 don't think you ever know in yourself whether you have gone mad.

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.'

If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane, over the abyss.

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

Schizophrenia is hearing voices, not doing voices.

... madness entered my veins.

... we have so many voices in us, how do we know which ones to obey?

A man likes to believe that he is the master of his soul. But as long as he is unable to control his moods and emotions, or to be conscious of the myriad secret ways in which unconscious factors insinuate themselves into his arrangements and decisions, he is certainly not his own master.

Well, the first thing we do is take our brain out and put it in a drawer. Stick it somewhere and let it tantrum until it wears itself out. You may still hear the brain and all the shitty things it is saying to you, but it will be muffled, and just the fact that it is not in your head anymore will make things seem clearer. And then you just do it.

I think I have a lot of voices in my head and I guess my inner critic is a female.

I'll forbear; And am fallen out with my more headier will To take the indisposed and sickly fit For the sound man.

What distracts us will begin to define us. We don't need to swing at every pitch.

How crazy craziness makes everyone, how irrationally afraid. The madness hidden in each of us, called to, identified, aroused like a lust. And against that the jaw sets. The more I fear my own insanity the more I must punish yours.

Oh, I'm crazy all right. I do have plenty of psychoses. Multiple personality, delusional dementia, OCD. I've got them all, but most of all, I'm crazy about you.

Often we combat our evil thoughts most effectively if we absolutely refuse to allow them to be expressed in words.

I feel the closest to crazy when I'm disagreeing with the voice in my head

I like to assume that since I drive a car and maintain a respectable credit rating and rarely murder anyone and bury them in the back garden unless they really deserve it, that the fact that I hear voices wont unduly disturb anyone.