Quotes About Paranoia

I'm scared to death of being poor. It's like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always fat inside. I grew up poor and will always feel poor inside. It's my pet paranoia.

Why does it feel like night today? Something in the air's not right today Why am I so uptight today? Paranoia's all I got left

Yeah, you're being paranoid all right, pal, Brad concluded, but a little paranoia never hurt anyone. Like that dude said, it ain't paranoia if the bastards really are watchin'.

His mother tried to get him back on the straight and narrow, but the sheriff locked him up one night after they found him naked in a cow pasture screaming about mind-taps and government conspiracies

Gott weiß, wie schwer es mir fällt Beziehungen zu genießen. Ich verhalte mich immer wie ein Geheimdienstler, der seinen Partner als Doppelagent enttarnen will.

A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.

In Georgia to suspect was to believe, and the only hand you could really trust was that of your enemy because you knew it held a dagger.

we all have a tendency to mistrust each other, to be suspicious of what we don't understand.

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Survival ... is an infinite capacity for suspicion.

Ronnie had retired from acting to live off the grid in an underground bunker in the Nevada desert to escape the government, which he fervently believed was listening to his thoughts and planning a global pandemic to usher in a new world order.

The entire world wasn't after them. It only seemed that way.

she was so afraid of everything that she made it impossible to really enjoy anything at all.

Colette picked up a piece of the bread and stared at it suspiciously. "This toast feels raw," she said. "Is it safe to eat raw toast?" "Of course not," Hugo said. "I bet that baby is trying to poison us." "Actually

Who's crazy: people who trust other people, or people who don't?

Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.

Everyone knows you can't see death cooties. Take my word for it, that couch has the biggest, fattest death cooties that ever existed. That couch has the mother of all death cooties. – Lula

Her oldest brother, Lowell, usually sent her a conspiracy-laden tirade about the government being in cahoots with Big Oil, the Russians, and the Taliban, in no particular order.

As a black man, sometimes you can't tell if what you're seeing has underlying bigotry, or it's a normal conversation and you're being paranoid. That dynamic in itself is unsettling. I admit sometimes I see race and racism when its not there.

Really great entrepreneurs have this very special mix of unstoppable optimism and scathing paranoia.

The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think the paranoiac the more impressive of the two because he is sufficient unto himself and cannot be shaken by failure.

No matter where I go, I always feel unwanted eyes following me. It's a dirty world out there.

I suppose there must be some way in which I'm compelled to show some side of myself - or of people - that's paranoid and fraught and beleaguered and downtrodden, just as Tom Cruise wants to show that he's terrifyingly upbeat and terrifyingly heroic all the time.

Basically, I think that Gotham is all of our urban nightmares and fears made into reality. Instead of hearing footsteps from behind you while you walk down the streets, turning around and finding nobody there, there is somebody there.