Quotes About Paranoia

Paranoia is just another word for ignorance.

I have had death threats from people with fixations.

There are two worldviews in thriller writing: the paranoid view, like Chuck Logan's, that everything is inside a large clockwork. I like those books; they're intricate and thought out, but my view is that everything is chaotic and stupid. Chaos reigns, and civilized people do what they can to hold it back.

America is in a state of somnolence. It's an avoidance of paranoia through ignoring reality.

With the growth of Harvard from a small provincial college into a great University, a unique paranoia has swept the ranks of local officialdom, furrowing brows throughout University Hall. The lurking fear is that somehow, in the operations of the gigantic administrative machine, a student might get lost in the shuffle.

If I can't get hold of someone I love, I'll assume they're being tied to a radiator by al-Qaeda rather than their battery's run out. I'm quite a worrier.

We have a shotgun we inherited from my father-in-law, a paranoid Englishman living in Texas. I have a .22 Marlin rifle, similar to the one Annie Oakley had, and my husband has a .357 Magnum pistol. All those are locked up tight, of course. We have a couple of pellet guns that get more use than the real guns.

I believe that the moment is near when by a procedure of active paranoiac thought, it will be possible to systematize confusion and contribute to the total discrediting of the world of reality.

Paranoia is a very comforting state of mind. If you think they're out to get you, it means you think you matter.

My enemies are everywhere. And sometimes, those we least suspect turn out to be our biggest threats.

One day, I'm certain a meteor will crash through the atmosphere and land on my apartment... Or maybe, as Mom says, it's only that I am a little bit disorganized and a little bit paranoid. To which I remind her, it's not paranoia if the meteors really are out to get you.

For some time I lived in fear of receiving a letter signed 'S. Gollum'. That would have been more difficult to deal with.

Every time I get on an airplane I figure it's gonna get blown up. You live on the edge.

Every time I leave the house or we go anywhere, there is a paranoia. We always have to watch for specific cars and specific signs that we're being photographed.

We routinely leave our small children in day care among strangers. At the same time, in our guilt we evince paranoia about strangers and foster fear in children.

Was it still paranoia if all his fears were justified?

Didn't go in, just hovered outside like homeless person because (a) place was too small and Detta would have spotted me, and (b) once you're through doors of shop like that, if you try to leave without buying anything, they shoot you in the back with sniper's rifle.

We're hallucinating. And that's what this world is: a mass hallucination, where fear seems more real than love. Fear is an illusion. Our craziness, paranoia, anxiety and trauma are literally all imagined.

El miedo es una ilusión, un delirio. Nuestra locura, nuestra paranoia, nuestra angustia y nuestros traumas son imaginarios.

I've always been paranoid about the police, because even when I'm not doing anything illegal I'm thinking about doing something illegal.

He realized that at the root of Guiliano's romanticism was the brilliant penetration of paranoia.

I also think my mom 'suffers' from something one might call Pollyanna's paranoia, an irrational suspicion that there are people out there secretly trying to do good things to you, that there are all sorts of hidden perks lurking everywhere, almost like the Easter eggs in video games...that it's possible that Raoul's might be running some sort of unpublicized hemangioblastoma-all-the-caviar-you-can-eat promotion.

Embora nominalmente pertençam à sala, com o tempo, os auxiliares acomodam-se aos hábitos e práticas da cozinha e começam a adquirir a mesma visão do mundo: aquela perspetiva xenófoba e ligeiramente paranóica em relação a tudo o que possa existir para lá das portas da cozinha, o mesmo sentido de humor macabro e a desconfiança em relação ao pessoal que não pertence à cozinha.

For God's sake, please don't sneeze and if you're holding a grudge against me for anything I did, real or imagined, I apologize profusely and swear I'll never do it again." "Don't worry, Caillen, I'll be careful." He definitely hoped so. But the wicked gleam in her eye and slight smile on her lips made him wonder if he'd lie down as a rooster and get up as a hen. Stop being paranoid. You can trust her. After