Quotes About Paranoia

Era, por cierto, muy hermosa y en ocasiones incluso dolorosamente hermosa. (...) Se reía con ganas, abierta, feliz, y en la combinación del sonido y de sus gestos uno adivinaba sueños inquietantes, paranoias, ganas de vivir a todo trapo aunque terminara rasguñada y llena de magulladuras.

They're afraid I'll die," Prajapati thought. "They'll always be afraid I'll die, and they'll always be trying to kill me.

He would fear everyone he did not control. And the next day he would fear those he controlled even more.

Leave it to Massachusetts to create a gun policy so paranoid that even when you took the proper legal steps no one believed you.

Because you're a suspicious bitch.

No one is going to abduct me, Rae. That's what all abductees say.

You should be more paranoid than you are. Your typical suburban mom worries all the time, but she worries about the wrong things. Because she doesn't worry about me.

Paranoid?" she inquired solicitously. "Getting more so by the minute. Having Mad Emperor Yuri in my family tree doesn't help a bit. I'm always wondering if I'm starting to come down with his disease. Can you be paranoid about being paranoid?" She smiled sweetly. "If anyone can, it's you.

Los detalles corroboraban lo que ella decía que era, y eso se agregaba a una sensación sólida, aunque subliminal, de algo cierto que tal vez escapaba a la paranoia profesional de los que trabajan en seguridad

Bring home one dismembered body part, once, mind you, once, and people get twitchy about checking your luggage ever after.

Me, I got patted down! I felt rather flattered that he thought I could have an AK-47 concealed in my pants leg or a bomb strapped to my Wal-Mart bra.

His fish smells fishier than the others- he is sure of it. Perhaps he has been poisoned.

For you, not vaccinating me was a class thing. Upper-class delusionals can afford to indulge their paranoias only because the masses bear the so-called dangers of vaccinations.

Somewhat paranoid to begin with, he assumed every tradesman was an extortion artist

Paranoia is sometimes the best way a person can handle situations in life.

The following morning, when I met for breakfast with the staff, we kept noisy music playing loudly on a tape recorder as a precaution against hidden microphones. It was a good thing we did: Later, we found five listening devices hidden in our rooms in the guesthouse. One staffer unscrewed a plate over the light switch in his room, discovered a bug, removed it, and took it home as a souvenir.

Soon the key word to describe it is the adjective 'mass'. Thus there is mass culture and mass hysteria, mass tastes (or rather lack of taste) and mass paranoia, mass enslavement, and finally mass murder. The only hero on the world stage is the crowd, and the main feature of this crowd, this mass, is anonymity, impersonality, lack of identity, lack of a face.

To adduce proof that the husky, straw-hatted young man in gabardine who tailed me the whole next month was an F.B.I. operative is impossible, nor can I swear that my mail was fluoroscoped during that period. I do know that for a while I underwent all the tremors of a Graham Greene character on the run, even if it had no purificatory effect on my religious views. When

Guilty secrets make paranoids of us all.

People called him paranoiac and he accepted the label. He had a whole theory of paranoia. I don't think he remembers that now. He said paranoia was to be understood as essentially optimistic, because the paranoid believed that there was a meaning to events, that the world made sense, even though that sense was concealed.

Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.

You can never be comfortable with your success, you've got to be paranoid you're going to lose it.

Candor disarms paranoia.

Electric Networks spread fear of murder on the streets