Schizophrenia From Famous People Quotes & Sayings

What's he doing?" Raine asked. "He's not talking to me." "Grab him by the nuts and twist." I glared at her over my laptop. To us, our characters were real, living, breathing people that sometimes didn't cooperate. There was a famous quote that being a write was an acceptable form of schizophrenia. It was absolutely true. The voices never stopped, except when they were being jerks. — Chelsea M. Cameron

No matter how much you try to pretend and force yourself and maybe fight against love and try to forget or be oblivious to it, there's no way to fight it. I think when it's there, it's there. — Olga Kurylenko

Piss!" shouted Kosta, hoisting his tumbler toward Cosetta, who nearly came apart at the joints with the resulting fit of giggles.
"Thank you, Ravelle, for this gift of a daughter who will now be up all night repeating that word ... — Scott Lynch

A straw man can be a very convenient property, after all. I can see why a plenteously contented, drowsily complacent, temperamentally incurious atheist might find it comforting - even a little luxurious - to imagine that belief in God is no more than belief in some magical invisible friend who lives beyond the clouds, or in some ghostly cosmic mechanic invoked to explain gaps in current scientific knowledge. — David Bentley Hart

No man is obliged to do as much as he can do. A man is to have part of his life to himself. — Samuel Johnson

All you need is one safe anchor to keep you grounded when the rest of your life spins out of control. — Katie Kacvinsky

And his best riches, ignorance of wealth. — Oliver Goldsmith

Never has our future been more unpredictable, never have we depended so much on political forces that cannot be trusted to follow the rules of common sense and self-interest - forces that look like sheer insanity, if judged by the standards of other centuries. — Hannah Arendt

Now there is in a way a renaissance of modern dance - suddenly, it is more respected and discovered. — Mikhail Baryshnikov

So near along life's stream are the fountains of innocence and youth making fertile its sandy margin; and the voyageur will do well to replenish his vessels often at these uncontaminated sources. — Henry David Thoreau

To some extent, we've always had an admiration for extroversion in our culture. But the extrovert ideal really came to play at the turn of the 20th century when we had the rise of big business. — Susan Cain

Well," he said, "f'r example, if they ask where you've come from, you could say 'Behind me,'and if they asked where you're going, you'd say 'In front of me. — Neil Gaiman

It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

You never know how long your fifteen minutes of fame is going to last. — Jeff Dunham

The acting life is different than I thought it would be. I love it - it's actually a lot less pressure than I thought it would be. — Melanie Lynskey