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  • There's a schizoid streak within the family anyway so I dare say that I'm affected by that. The majority of the people in my family have been in some kind of mental institution, as for my brother he doesn't want to leave. He likes it very much.

    David Bowie (2016). “David Bowie: The Last Interview”, p.21, Melville House
  • Reason flows from the blending of rational thought and feeling. If the two functions are torn apart, thinking deteriorates into schizoid intellectual activity and feeling deteriorates into neurotic life-damaging passions.

    Passion   Thinking   Two  
    Erich Fromm (2011). “The Revolution of Hope”, p.51, Lantern Books
  • Warhol was a prime example of a schizoid person. Maybe he had Asperger's, or maybe he was just an amorous human being on earth.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • There's a schizoid quality to our relationship with animals, in which sentiment and brutality exist side by side. Half the dogs in America will receive Christmas presents this year, yet few of us pause to consider the miserable life of the pig - an animal easily as intelligent as a dog - that becomes the Christmas ham.

    "An Animal's Place" by Michael Pollan, www.nytimes.com. November 10, 2002.
  • In the 19th century inhumanity meant cruelty; in the 20th century it means schizoid self-alienation.

    Mean   Self   Century  
    "The Sane Society". Book by Erich Fromm, p. 102, 1955.
  • I think you have to be schizoid three different ways to be an actor ... You have to be a human being. Then you have to be the character you're playing. And on top of that you've got to be the guy sitting out there in Row 10, watching yourself and judging yourself. That's why most of us are crazy to start with, or go nuts once we get into it.

  • Schizoid behavior is a pretty common thing in children. It's accepted, because all we adults have this unspoken agreement that children are lunatics.

    Stephen King (2002). “The Shining”, p.165, Simon and Schuster
  • The constructive schizoid person stands against the spiritual emptiness of encroaching technology and does not let himself be emptied by it. He lives and works with the machine without becoming a machine. He finds it necessary to remain detached enough to get meaning from the experience, but in doing so, to protect his own inner life from impoverishment.

    Rollo May (1969). “Love and will”
  • I am not schizoid. A little manic-depressive, maybe." "'Know thyself.'" "We try, sir.

  • The organizer must become schizoid, politically, in order to slip into becoming a true believer. Before men can act an issue must be polarized. Men will act when they are convinced their cause is 100 percent on the side of the angels and that the opposition are 100 percent on the side of the devil. He knows there can be no action until issues are polarized to this degree.

    Angel   Men   Issues  
  • I feel like schizoid is a precursor to schizophrenia or manic depression. I feel like I'm manic. I have parts of schizoid, parts of Asperger's. I'm a smorgasbord of neuroses.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • In describing one way of going mad, I shall try to show that there is a comprehensible transition from the sane schizoid way of being-in-the-world to a psychotic way of being-in-the-world.

    Mad   Insanity   Trying  
    "The Divided Self". Book by R. D. Laing, Ch. 1, 1960.
  • Drawing architecture is a "schizoid" act: it involves reducing the world to a piece of paper.

    Drawing   Pieces   World  
    Eduardo Souto de Moura (2005). “Eduardo Souto de Moura: 1995-2005 : la naturalidad de las cosas”
  • The schizoid man is the natural product of the technological man. It is one way to live and is increasingly utilized and it may explode into violence.

    Rollo May (1969). “Love and will”
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