Knowing that you're crazy doesn't make the crazy things stop happening. @ -Mark Vonnegut
Minds that have withered into psychosis are far more terrifying than any character of fiction. @ -Christian Baloga
If you talk to God, you are praying.  If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. @ -Thomas Szasz
I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control. @ -Criss Jami
In my opinion, our health care system has failed when a doctor fails to treat an illness that is treatable. @ -Kevin Alan Lee
If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others. @ -Philip K. Dick
My good fortune is not that I've recovered from mental illness. I have not, nor will I ever. My good fortune lies in having found my life. @ -Elyn R. Saks
I learned a saying at the hospital. When you get cancer, people bring you cake. When you get a mental illness people run away. But that's not my experience at all. My friends and my family all supported me. It's not all bad. @ -Mindy Tsai
When I began to hear voices, I thought of the voices as from something of that source (aliens)... Well, you see, it's really my subconscious talking. It was really that, and I, of course, know that now. @ -John Nash
The goal of recovery is not to become normal. The goal is to embrace the human vocation of becoming more deeply, more fully human. @ -Patricia Deegan
Am I a mindless fool? My life is a fragment, a disconnected dream that has no continuity. I am so tired of senselessness. I am tired of the music that my feelings sing, the dream music. @ -Ross David Burke
The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight. @ -Joseph Campbell
When I talk to someone with schizophrenia, I understand them hearing voices. It puts them at ease to know they're not the only one. @ -Barbara Lindsay
Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia. @ -E. L. Doctorow
Please hear this: There are not 'schizophrenics.' There are people with schizophrenia. @ -Elyn Saks
Some people say I'm unique, that there aren't other people with schizophrenia like me. Well, there are people like me out there, but the stigma is so great that they don't come forward. @ -Elyn Saks
I have schizophrenia. I am not schizophrenia. I am not my mental illness. My illness is a part of me. @ -Jonathan Harnisch
The problem is that you have a disease, but the disease is abnormal integrity, loyalty to a view of the world that the schizophrenic is willing to stake his life on. @ -Carl Whitaker
As insanity in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom, so is schizophrenia the beginning of all art, all fantasy. @ -Hermann Hesse
Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent. @ -Sigmund Freud
There is no difference between acute schizophrenia and a world at war. @ -Gary Zukav
Adults with schizophrenia are not attractive in the way that an abandoned baby or abused dog is. @ -Paula Sellmeyer
Schizophrenia beats dining alone. @ -Oscar Levant
There's a tremendous need to implode the myths of mental illness, to put a face on it, to show people that a diagnosis does not have to lead to a painful and oblique life… We who struggle with these disorders can lead full, happy, productive lives, if we have the right resources. @ -Elyn R. Saks
There are things that tend to moderate with age. Schizophrenia is somewhat like that. 
I didn't consider myself a drifter; I was just a victim of schizophrenia. I had gone 10 years without getting any kind of treatment. Once I accepted and cooperated with the treatment, I started to beat the illness. @ -Lionel Aldridge
There are a number of things that family and friends can do to help a person with schizophrenia. One of the simplest and most effective is to create a positive environment around the person. @ -Milt Greek
