Quotes About Paranoia

paranoia, the first cousin of a bastard named fear

Before what?" Quiet Rain cut her off. Her old ears were as sharp as Thunder's. "Who's out there, planning my death?

Unable to attribute misfortune to chance, unable to accept their ultimate insignificance within the greater scheme, the people looked for monsters in their midst.

Vivian was not alone in thinking that a man who spent so much time discussing table tennis was probably a spy.

Paranoia is born of propaganda, ignorance, secrecy and fear.

The minute you think you're safe is the same minute you're fucked.

You say that I'm paranoid But I'm pretty sure the world is out to get me

Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.

I've always looked over my shoulder, especially in my hometown.

I'm always hoping no one is following me around with a camera.

I am a great husband because I am very afraid she may kill me.

Everywhere felt like a jail now- doors opening and closing, and me never feeling safe.

She was a worst-case scenarist on a grand scale. Because it was never just that the door was unlocked, it was that the door was unlocked, and men were inside, and they were waiting to rape and kill her.

I think she's sick, and I think what she has is contagious

I really believe Nick will come after me. I turn toward the house and see only a closed door.

This man might kill me.

Hale knew, before he had been in Brighton three hours, that they meant to murder him.

I'm an American, remember? I'm used to my government spying on me.

In the beginning we feared everything - animals, the weather, the trees, the night sky - everything except each other. Now we fear each other, and almost nothing else. No one knows why anyone does anything. No one tells the truth. No one is happy. No one is safe.

The worm of paranoia begins to eat into even the hardest adversary.

For like four or five months of my life I was too scared to like, move around and reach out for things because I was worried that I'd my hands would run into glass, like I could reach up and if I reached up and knocked on the air it would make a noise. I couldn't look at the sky because I was worried that I see a crack.

I'm a Luddite with computers, and I'm slightly worried about being hacked as well.

Being a pop star is something I don't think I'm very good at. I'm worried it's making me too paranoid, because all of a sudden, life has become this constant assessment. When you put something out there and people get to hear it, then those people react to it, socially, culturally.

Christ, he was paranoid about criticism. I used to say: why doesn't he worry about the team and forget what people are saying? He got Phil Thompson, who was a kid coming through when I was a Liverpool player, to have a go at me. So now I don't talk to him.