Quotes About Paranoia

I was very much a child of the Cold War.

Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.

Only the paranoid survive.

In a competitive industry, only paranoid incumbents - those constantly striving for betterment - have any hope of surviving.

I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.

I've often entertained paranoid suspicions about my fridge and what it's been doing to my poetry when I'm not looking, but I never even considered that my fan was thinking about me.

The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.

I was always suspicious and looking over my shoulder because that's how I was raised.

JF: Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.

Y si: el mundo de la pantalla seguía siendo el gobierno de las muchedumbres. Y el narcisismo campeaba y la paranoia cundía porque todos estábamos mirándonos a todos. Y no había allí nadie que no pareciera atrapado en su cabeza

He dare not come in company, for here he should be misused, disgraced, overshoot himself in gesture or speeches or be sick; he thinks everyman observes him.

People seemed uniquely printed to believe in plots and conspiracies, miracles and demons.

If for every error and every act of incompetence one can substitute an act of treason, many points of fascinating interpretation are open to the paranoid imagination.

Scopophobia hits them all—fear of seeing and being seen. A dog will bite if you stare at it too hard. People will shoot you.

Oh, lord. I was beginning to think like Neith. Soon I'd be huddled in an underground bunker eating army rations and cackling as I sewed together the pockets of all the boys who'd jilted me.

Hello, Paranoia, My Old Friend

The upshot of her tirade was that I was the devil's spawn and should be locked up in a tower before I unleashed hordes of the living dead to slaughter them all in their sleep. Well, maybe that's an exaggeration, but not by much.

One drawback to living in a medical research town is that they're paranoid about health, both physical and mental. The adults get off easy. Not the kids. Sneeze twice in a row and the teacher calls the school nurse. Drop out of a sport or let your grades fall and you're whisked off to Dr. Fodor's couch. They especially monitor the teens, as if hormonal surges could make us spontaneously combust at any moment.

Dac? porneÈ™ti o vân?toare de vr?jitoare, trebuie s? g?seÈ™ti È™i niÈ™te vr?jitoare.

Many Communist government officials have a rigid, dictatorial power, but they live in constant suspicion and fear of anything that might undermine the power they have.

I don't trust anybody who isn't a little bit neurotic

You can't write novels without a touch of paranoia. I'm paranoid as an act of good citizenship, concerned about what the powerful people are up to.

It could be worse, Shawn said... We're all sitting around this fire not knowing which one among us is the person who has been systematically picking us off... Now imagine that while we're sitting here, Reggie's head falls off his body, grows spider legs, and runs away into the darkness. The silence following Shawn's remark was the quietest Gus had ever heard. Even the fire stopped popping and sparking for a moment.