Quotes About Paranoia

I'm even a little afraid of the dark. If I'm alone in the dark I'll sometimes feel that there's a presence behind me and I'll even be afraid to turn around, but then if I do get the courage to turn around, I'll just be scared that whatever was there has just jumped over to the other side of me.

You have these catch-phrases that you associate with 'The X-Files': 'Trust No One,' 'Deny Everything.' 'Believe the Lie' was one of them.

When I was doing interviews at the FBI, my tape recorder battery died. They gave me a new one, and I said, 'Of course, this is bugged?'

I think there are people watching me, and if ever I manage to save £1,000 there's someone saying, 'Oh, we'll invent a tax to take that off him.'

For a long time, I was an assistant in the NFL to George Allen, and George was paranoid that other teams were cheating on him... that they were offering bounties, that they were wiring our locker room, that they were putting food poisoning into the pregame meal of the other team's stars, stuff like that.

My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid, but in this day and age, I don't want something around my neck that's worth more than my head.

Saying your meal was lovely, despite a slight fear it might kill you in the night.

Anyone in the United States today who isn't paranoid must be crazy.

If you think that someone is out to steal everything you have, you're either paranoid or a member of the middle class.

Rising Pressure The people around you generally appear sane and in control of their lives. But put any of them in stressful circumstances, with the pressure rising, and you will see a different reality. The cool mask of self-control comes off. They suddenly lash out in anger, reveal a paranoid streak, and become hypersensitive and often petty.

I know the internet is the stuff a paranoiac's dreams are made of.

Always remember that. There were enemies everywhere, and you never knew who.

when we get into a physiological uproar and activate the stress-response for no reason at all, or over something we cannot do anything about, we call it things like "anxiety," "neurosis," "paranoia," or "needless hostility." Thus, the stress-response can be mobilized not only in response to physical or psychological insults, but also in expectation of them.

I had been downright paranoid all afternoon, aware of everyone near me. By the time I went for the car, my neck and shoulders were knotted into one painful ache. The most frightening thing I'd seen all afternoon had been the prices on the designer clothing.

When you spend all your time worrying that the devil is right behind you, eventually you start seeing him whether he's there or not.

Powerful and paranoid—it was a recipe for royalty.

My Spidey-sense had been tingling since I found the empty car. Sometimes it's not paranoia; it's just the truth.

Oh my God," my husband said with a gasp, reading further. "He beat three men into unconsciousness? Alone? What is this, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Rapist? Does he fly and run across treetops? How long are his nails? What do you think his record for man beating is? Do we need four guys in the house at all times? Do we need five? You know, I could start a band and we could practice here.

Grazie a lui mi ero avvicinato per la prima volta al grande mistero, ovvero al fatto che, se mai nella nostra esistenza riusciamo ad attingere qualcosa di speciale, qualcosa di più elevato, ciò accade solo al prezzo di una particolare concentrazione interiore, di una paranoia sublime e, nella sua sacralità, affine alla follia.

Fear is a distorting mirror in which anything can appear as a caricature of itself, stretched to terrible proportions; once inflamed, the imagination pursues the craziest and most unlikely possibilities. What is most absurd suddenly seems the most probable.

A paranoid man is a man who knows a little about what's going on.

The beginning of revolutions is psychologically strikingly akin to that of certain relationships: the stress on unity, the sense of omnipotence, the desire to eliminate secrets (with the fear of the opposite soon leading to lover's paranoia and the creation of a secret police).

When we suspect that we are appropriate targets for hurt, it does not take much for us to believe that someone or something is out to hurt us

People always kill Caesar. Don't trust anyone.