Quotes About Paranoia

I'm probably just as good a mother as the next repressed, obsessive-compulsive paranoiac.

He had begun to have spells lately of worrying that he had died, and that everyone knew it but him.

Sooner or later, each of us becomes (for a while) the kind of person who believes in the reptile people that control the earth. We're seeking our own little pocket of uniqueness.

Well . . . he lets it ruin his life. He gets so obsessed with going after the one thing that hurt him that he loses sight of everything else. He becomes isolated from everyone and everything. Paranoid. He feels like he can't trust anyone around him ever. In the end, he loses everything, even his life. And for what? Total stupidity, if you ask me.

Trust no one at your back unless you want them to bury a knife in it.' (Syn)

What am I supposed to do while you're gone? (Shahara) Think up ways to kill me while I sleep. (Syn)

En la vida real era muy distinto. Todo el mundo es sospechoso. Todo el mundo está absorto.

lo que había deseado. Con una última mirada calle arriba y abajo, salió del coche murmurando para sí que estaba paranoica y que era una imbécil y que no tenía nada que temer. De todos modos, abrió el buzón con cuidado como si temiera encontrar una serpiente venenosa enrollada en el interior. Lo primero que vio fue el sobre blanco encima de un catálogo a todo

Acepta la locura. Crea el delirio. Establece la duda. Alimenta la paranoia.

Create delusion. Establish doubt. Feed paranoia.

Is my paranoia getting completely out of hand, or are you mongoloids really talking about me?

All of them, all except Phineas, constructed at infinite cost to themselves these Maginot Lines against this enemy they thought they saw across the frontier, this enemy who never attacked that way—if he ever attacked at all; if he was indeed the enemy.

harmonoia n. an itchy sense of dread when life feels just a hint too peaceful—when everyone seems to get along suspiciously well, with an eerie stillness that makes you want to brace for the inevitable collapse, or burn it down yourself. From harmony + paranoia. Pronounced "hahr

driven crazy by not knowing which'll destroy us first, the H-bomb or the wrong fork at the dinner table,

I worked for MI6 in the Sixties, during the great witch-hunts, when the shared paranoia of the Cold War gripped the services.

The Beck seemed to feel that if she let her guard down for an instant, she would die. Kidnappers lurked in every public bathroom, you got cancer if you caught a whiff of secondhand tobacco smoke, bombs and handguns proliferated in high schools everywhere, you caught AIDS if you even kissed you boyfriend. God forbid you got a sunburn of forgot to fasten your seat belt.

Was it arrogant to think a squirrel was following you around?

I'm afraid of wooden horses, cheap gin, and pretty girls. Especially when they give me presents. And when they go by the name of the woman who defeated Sherlock Holmes.

Paranoid nationalism may well be an intellectual void, and appeal to the lowest instincts—there is nothing in North Korean ideology that a child of twelve cannot grasp at once—but for that very reason it has proven itself capable of uniting citizens of all classes, and inspiring them through bad times as well as good ones.

I can't even go to the mall anymore. I have to bring 17 security guards... or it feels like it.

If you can't trust your can opener, then what? Is your wastebasket going to get you?

For so many years I feared that he would try to murder me, but in the end it was I who would have murdered him. He may burn my book if he chooses.) Third

For Cato says that he who is guilty believes every one speaks only of him.

I have an irrational fear that I'm going to have a gruesome and untimely death because so many wonderful things are happening to me.