Quotes About Paranoia

Stalin's moods were becoming almost as difficult to parse as the intentions of the Soviet Union's external enemies.

The individual who is friend- or enemy-centered has no intrinsic security. Feelings of self-worth are volatile, a function of the emotional state or behavior of other people. Guidance comes from the person's perception of how others will respond, and wisdom is limited by the social lens or by an enemy-centered paranoia. The individual has no power. Other people are pulling the strings.

Hang up the phone on a vampire, the definition of carefree.

People love conspiracy theories.

I don't trust or love anyone. Because people are so creepy. Creepy creepy creeps. Creeping around. Creeping here and creeping there. Creeping everywhere.

I love talking about Kennedy assassination...a great archetypal example of how totalitarian government...sorry, wrong meeting.

I love conspiracy theories. I used to just live on it. You know it's all hype and garbage, but you're still really paranoid afterwards. It's fun entertainment.

Americans have discovered fear.

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.

They're trying to kill me," Yossarian told him calmly. No one's trying to kill you," Clevinger cried. Then why are they shooting at me?" Yossarian asked. They're shooting at everyone," Clevinger answered. "They're trying to kill everyone." And what difference does that make?

Now I'm in a top-secret government base somewhere in the middle of fucking Iowa, waiting to find out what the hell is happening. In short—I'm totally losing my shit.

No," Daito said. "We're not. You're all strangers to us. For all we know, any one of you could be a Sixer spy.

When our goals become comparative, we end up with the constant paranoia of an existence of always being weighed on hidden scales, living with the stress of keeping our elbows out in anticipation of others trying to get ahead of us. All of this is a distortion of the wisdom of achievement, which lies hidden within the emotional energy of jealousy and envy.

Once launched in the dizzy path of jealousy, lovers invariably give full sway to their imaginations and entertain the wildest ideas.

You've got so many guys coming up and putting in work, and everybody wants to be in my position, so I gotta be paranoid and think that if I'm not producing, if I'm not going out there and winning fights and winning impressively, I'm gonna be replaced.

I don't sleep well. I'm a very nervous - by my nature - anxious, almost paranoid person and reporter.

I've never been to a class reunion or anything because I'm always afraid of that one - there's going to be some 'Carrie'-like incident.

There had to be a hysteria and a fear sent through America in order to get increased war budgets.

Nenn es Hoffnung, nenn es Utopie oder nenn es paranoide Schizophrenie.

When an editor works with an author, she cannot help seeing into the medicine cabinet of his soul. All the terrible emotions, the desire for vindications, the paranoia, and the projection are bottled in there, along with all the excesses of envy, desire for revenge, all the hypochondriacal responses, rituals, defenses, and the twin obsessions with sex and money. It other words, the stuff of great books.

Why is it I'm always so quick to believe that people are thinking...believing the worst about me?

It's amazing where the paranoid mind can take you.

and has created an atmosphere of suspicion