Quotes by Mark Vonnegut

Mark Vonnegut

And if you’re lucky enough to survive going crazy and get back to the point where you can pass for normal, it builds a question into the rest of your life. You have to forgive people for wondering, ‘How all right can he be?’

Crazy

Forgiving

People

Are people who have been crazy held to unfair standards?Of course, but it’s not in your best interest to complain. If you’re paranoid and people are looking at you funny it’s best to let it pass. Psychotic people have an uncanny knack for making their own worst dreams come true. Depressing things happen to depressed people way beyond what you would expect from random distribution.

Crazy

Depressing

Dream

Art is lunging forward without certainty about where you are going or how to get there, being open to and dependent on what luck, the paint, the typo, the dissonance, give you. Without art, you’re stuck with yourself as you are and life as you think life is.

Art

Giving

Thinking

As well as being one of the worst things that can happen to a human being, schizophrenia can also be one of the richest learning and humanizing experiences life offers.

Mental Illness

Schizophrenia

Worst

Colds, ulcers, flu, and cancer are things we get. Schizophrenia is something we are.

Cancer

Flu

Ulcers

Fear that I was very different from everyone else. Fear that deep down inside I was a shallow fraud, that after the revolution or after Jesus came down to straighten everything out, everyone from hippies to hard-hats would unfold and blossom into the beautiful people they were while I would remain a gnarled little wart in the corner, oozing bile and giving off putrid smells.

Beautiful

Fear

Jesus

Having their feelings make sense is how people get their kicks.

Feelings

Kicks

People

I didn’t like the ’60s because it was too important what people who had nothing to do with the war thought about it.

Important

People

War

I don’t think the people today who start hearing voices, stop eating and sleeping, and run amuck are likely to get good treatment. Having more knowledge, better diagnostic capabilities, better medications with fewer side effects, can’t make up for the fact that most patients are being treated by doctors, therapists, and hospitals, who are operating under constraints and incentives that reward non-treatment, non-hospitalization, non-therapy, non-follow-up, non-care. Lost to follow-up is the best outcome a health insurer can hope for.

Running

Sleep

Thinking

I saw a study the other day showing that some atypical anti-psychotic was at least as good as mood stabilizers in preventing suicide. It’s a very good thing to decrease suicide but we should care at least a little if I’m not killing myself because I feel better or if I just can’t remember where I put the damn gun.

Feel Better

Gun

Suicide

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Adults

Armor

Art

Beautiful

Book

Cancer

Causes

Childhood

Children

Crazy

Depressing

Differences

Different

Doctors

Dream

Father

Fear

Feel Better

Feelings

Flu

Forgiving

Forgotten

Fun

Giving

Grace

Gun

Ideas

Important

Jesus

Jobs

Kicks

Knowing

Lasts

Loner

Lord

Making Love

Mean

Memories

Mental Illness

Might

Military

Mother

Night

Paper

People

Polite

Reading

Reading And Writing

Real

Regret

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Quotes by Mark Vonnegut

Mark Vonnegut

And if you’re lucky enough to survive going crazy and get back to the point where you can pass for normal, it builds a question into the rest of your life. You have to forgive people for wondering, ‘How all right can he be?’

Art is lunging forward without certainty about where you are going or how to get there, being open to and dependent on what luck, the paint, the typo, the dissonance, give you. Without art, you’re stuck with yourself as you are and life as you think life is.

As well as being one of the worst things that can happen to a human being, schizophrenia can also be one of the richest learning and humanizing experiences life offers.

Colds, ulcers, flu, and cancer are things we get. Schizophrenia is something we are.

Having their feelings make sense is how people get their kicks.

I didn’t like the ’60s because it was too important what people who had nothing to do with the war thought about it.

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