Quotes About Paranoia

The World According to Bensenhaver," the book jacket flap said, "is about a man who is so fearful of bad things happening to his loved ones that he creates an atmosphere of such tension that bad things are almost certain to occur. And they do.

Look at that. She think I got siphlus and TB and a hard-on and I gonna cut her up with a razor and lif her purse. Ooo-wee.

What you think about somebody wants peace, Claude?" "That sounds like a communiss to me." Mrs. Reilly's worst fears were realized.

paranoia is just a heightened sense of awareness

I'd lost all faith in everything, except for the certainty that there's always someone behind our backs waiting to deceive us.

Confusion is an often too subtle sign of paranoia

Annie] Sprinkle is a many-gendered mother of the heart. And many-gendered mothers of the heart say: Just because you have enemies doea not mean you have to be paranoid. They insist, no matter the evidence marshaled against their insistence: There is nothing you can throw at me that I cannot metabolize, no thing impervious to my alchemy.

My wife, I should tell you, is crazy. Not in a requiring-medication-and-wards-and-men-in-white-coats sense— although I sometimes wonder if there may have been times in her past—but in a subtle, more socially acceptable, less ostentatious way. She doesn't think like other people. She believes that to pull a gun on someone lurking, in all likelihood entirely innocently, at our perimeter fence is not only permissible but indeed the right thing to do.

The thing about the Nazis," Ruud said, "is that they're paranoid, but they never see what's right under their noses. If they did, Hitler wouldn't wear that bloody silly little moustache.

Captain, the problem is not that I'm paranoid. The problem is that the universe keeps justifying my paranoia.

There is a certain type of person who feels like they must be armed at every moment of the day or else the world will come for them in some way. Back home, this is very much not a good way to live.

There is a certain type of person who feels like they must be armed at every moment of the day or else the world will come for them in some way.

You believe someone is leveraging all this to work against me." "You are the emperox, ma'am. Someone is always working against you. It's in the job description.

Joseph habitually scowled at furniture, expecting it to be impertinent, mischievous, or dusty.

Her father was frightened by a strange bed or a foreign language or a political party he didn't belong to. Her father truly believed that the Democratic party was a subversive organization whose design would destroy the United States and put it in the hands of bearded communists.

Thus it came about that the conquerors grew afraid of the conquered and their nerves wore thin and they shot at shadows in the night.

Nedendir bilmem. Belki de herkes birbirinden korkuyor bu dünya da.

Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live

My family fears that the Russians will assassinate me.

We are all sufferers from history, but the paranoid is a double sufferer, since he is afflicted not only by the real world, with the rest of us, but by his fantasies as well.

I have trust issues with allowing other individuals to know my innermost secrets for fear of how I may be viewed. Everyone has this.

Men who fear demons see demons everywhere.

All guys are scared of each other, didn't you know that? I'm not the only one. We're all born afraid.

We worried about competitors, but it was an unreasonable fear. As a friend once pointed out, most gunshot wounds are self-inflicted.