Quotes About Paranoia

Here is what I know. When you're running a successful company or an organization, you can take this human equation to the bank: underconfidence plus insecurity always equals paranoia and backstabbing.

I was suffering from a peculiar and persistent sense that I was being pursued, and also the conviction that under the political order of the times, our lives had no meaning.

Ultimately, if you look at all my films from 'Bloody Sunday' on, they're steeped in a post-9/11 atmosphere. 'United 93' is directly about 9/11, of course, but every one of the movies deals with paranoia, mistrust, and fear.

I'm afraid of them and they don't like me because I'm afraid.

I can't talk to the walls because they're yelling at me. I can't talk to my wife; she listens to the walls.

Mr Verloc felt the latent unfriendliness of all out of doors with a force approaching to positive bodily anguish.

I have a feeling that someone nearby is soon going to find out something about me that will mean the end, although I can't imagine what that something is.

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

symptoms: an unreasonable belief that everyone around him was crazy, a homicidal impulse to machine-gun strangers, retrospective falsification, an unfounded suspicion that people hated him and were conspiring to kill him.

I get the willies when I see closed doors.

He felt awkward because she was going to murder him.

Yossarian attended the education sessions because he wanted to find out why so many people were working so hard to kill him.

You have a morbid aversion to dying.

Immediately next door to Yossarian was Havermeyer, who liked peanut brittle and lived all by himself in the two-man tent in which he shot tiny field mice every night with huge bullets from the .45 he had stolen from the dead man in Yossarian's tent.

You have a morbid aversion to dying. You probably resent the fact that you're at war and might get your head blown off any second.

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you.

The coolly calibrated manipulation of the credulous American public, by an administration bent upon stoking paranoid patriotism!

of all psychic conditions, anxiety verging upon paranoia/hysteria is perhaps the most contagious, even among men.

They say certain people aren't good soldiers because if they're in a foxhole all night—you know, if you're creative and smart, you're thinking about all the different ways someone is going to blow your head off. But if you're not that smart, you're just like chilling out. And I feel like that in life. I'm just in the foxhole all fucking day thinking about everything that's going to go wrong in every possible way.

You're very Johnny Depp in Secret Window.

I was having a mildly paranoid day, mostly due to the fact that the mad priest lady from over the river had taken to nailing weasels to my front door again.

More than all other people, we are afraid of each other.

I used to think that people worried about one world government were more than a little paranoid. Today, not so much.

Monogamy doesn't work unless it rises up from the bones. Because it promises nothing but fear and tension when forced on you. It fills you up with despair where there might be joy. It shoves guilt and paranoia and self-loathing down your throat, if you don't truly want it.