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Quotes About Psychosis

Once you've been talked to by voices, it's not possible to go back to a world where talking voices is not possible.
~ Mark Vonnegut
madness that didn't involve mania or depression or psychosis. He called it 'manie sans delire' – insanity without delusions.
~ Jon Ronson
Tony said just being here can be enough to turn someone crazy.
~ Jon Ronson
if a person was overcome by a violent madness he'd involuntarily start to sound like someone from Louisiana.
~ Jon Ronson
I am exiting the wider world, to return to my homeland of bullying, psychosis, and bad taste. Forgive me. It is a medical matter. Once
~ Jonathan Lethem
The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
~ Joseph Campbell
The schizophrenic mind is not so much split as shattered. I like to say schizophrenia is like a waking nightmare.
~ Elyn Saks
When I believe, I am crazy. When I don't believe, I suffer psychotic depression.
~ Philip K. Dick
In my most psychotic stages, I imagine myself chewing on sidewalks and bulging and swallowing sunlight and clouds.
~ Andy Behrman
symptoms: an unreasonable belief that everyone around him was crazy, a homicidal impulse to machine-gun strangers, retrospective falsification, an unfounded suspicion that people hated him and were conspiring to kill him.
~ Joseph Heller
But unlike people with psychotic conditions like schizophrenia, they are not going insane at all. They are, if anything, suddenly overly aware of reality and existence and of the ways in which their own experience is a distortion of a "normal" sense of a real self. Depersonalization,
~ Daphne Simeon
A madman in particular has always a very strong reason for the crimes he commits.
~ Agatha Christie
Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.
~ Douglas MacArthur
It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.
~ Douglas MacArthur
Who needs eyes when you can hallucinate?
~ Raymond Pettibon
No me interesa curarme, sólo quiero cambiar las alucinaciones. ¿Se
~ Ricardo Piglia
A schizophrenic is a person who already has a natural tendency to absent himself from this world.
~ Paulo Coelho
Every year the hunters shot cows and horses and family pets and each other. And unbelievably, they sometimes shot themselves, perhaps in a psychotic episode where they mistook themselves for dinner
~ Louise Penny
Freud thought that a psychosis was a waking dream, and that poets were daydreamers too, but I wonder if the reverse is not as often true, and that madness is a fiction lived in like a rented house
~ William H. Gass
Freud thought that a psychosis was a waking dream, and that poets were daydreamers too, but I wonder if the reverse is not as often true, and that madness is a fiction lived in like a rented house
~ William Gass
Censors tend to do what only psychotics do; They confuse fantasy with reality.
~ David Cronenberg
Our prisons are full of people who think they're Napoleon..or God.
~ Ian Fleming
Insanity is the greatest gift of humanity, for insanity talks to the mind of the delusion.
~ Lionel Suggs
You walk a fine line between beautifully macabre and uncharacteristically psychotic.
~ Solange nicole