Quotes About Paranoia

conspiracy practitioners.

Two things you should know about me; The first is that I am deeply suspicious of people in general. It is my nature to expect the worst of them. And the second is that I am unexpectedly good with computers.

Terrorism and greed were the watchwords of my time. The world had learned to be cynical.

It does not matter how sternly you tell yourself that the crippling paranoia of the small hours of the night is due solely to body chemistry. You still feel absolutely miserable.

I think in every country that there is at least one executive who is scared of going crazy.

I don't know what popping-and-locking is but I know to lock my car door whenever people are doing it.

As for paranoia, anyone who has the imagination to postulate all possibilities is automatically a paranoiac.

Fat realized that one of two possibilities existed and only two; either Dr. Stone was totally insane – not just insane but totally so – or else in an artful, professional fashion he had gotten Fat to talk; he had drawn Fat out and now knew that Fat was totally insane.

Maybe there was once a human who looked like you, and somewhere along the line you killed him and took his place. And your superiors don't know.

Please don't continually say I'm paranoid. Why? It makes me paranoid.

Who threw the stone at me? he asked himself. No one. But why does it bother me? I've undergone it before, during fusion. While using my empathy box, like everyone else. This isn't new. But it was. Because, he thought, I did it alone.

The first thing that went wrong, according to Fat, had to do with the radio. Listening to it one night- he had not been able to sleep for a long time- he heard the radio saying hideous words, sentences which it could not be saying. Beth, being asleep, missed that. So that could have been Fat's mind breaking down; by then his psyche was disintegrating at a terrible velocity. Mental illness is not funny.

A paranoiac, my friend, is a person who has gone crazy in the most intelligent, well-informed way, the world being what it is. The paranoiac believes that great secret conspiracies are afoot to destroy him.

With him inside the elevator descended.

Philip K. Dick

Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then." ? Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly

Strano come un delirio persecutorio riesca di tanto in tanto a incontrare, per quanto brevemente, la realtà.

Take warn­ing, Miller! The Board has reports on your eccentricities.

The guilty, he reflected as he drove amid the heavy late-afternoon traffic as carefully as possible, may flee when no one pursues—he

One invisible puff-puff whisk of economically priced Ubik banishes compulsive obsessive fears that the entire world is turning into clotted milk, worn-out tape recorders and obsolete iron-cage elevators, plus other, further, as-yet-unglimpsed manifestations of decay.

Philip K. Dick

Another person wearing a hood—a probe shield.

It had been a phobia of his for years that someday he would fall into the hands of madmen---in particular, madmen who seemed sane up until the last moment.

I don't trust him. You know, he's crazy. And when you're around him you're crazy too.