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Quotes About Paranoia

He answered emails in one word—partly a paranoia about email, but even more a controlling crypticness.
~ Michael Wolff
many around Trump were surprised to record an unexpected character note: he wasn't paranoid. He was self-pitying and melodramatic, but not on guard. Negativity and betrayal always startled him.
~ Michael Wolff
I was in Russia years ago with the Ms. Universe contest—did very very well—I tell everyone be careful, because you don't want to see yourself on television—cameras all over the place. And again, not just Russia, all over. So would anyone really believe that story? I'm also very much of a germaphobe, by the way. Believe me.
~ Michael Wolff
He reprimanded the housekeeping staff for picking up his shirt from the floor: "If my shirt is on the floor, it's because I want it on the floor." Then he imposed a set of new rules: nobody touch anything, especially not his toothbrush. (He had a longtime fear of being poisoned, one reason why he liked to eat at McDonald's—nobody knew he was coming and the food was safely premade.)
~ Michael Wolff
many around Trump were surprised to record an unexpected character note: he wasn't paranoid. He was self-pitying and melodramatic, but not on guard. Negativity and betrayal always startled him. Narcissism, really, is the opposite of paranoia: Trump thought people were and should be protecting him. He was surprised, and all the more deeply wounded, to realize that he had to look after himself.
~ Michael Wolff
La envidia —gustaba repetir— la mantienen los que se empeñan en creerse envidiados, y las más de las persecuciones son efecto más de la manía persecutoria que no de la perseguidora.
~ Miguel de Unamuno
La envidia la mantienen los que se empeñan en creerse envidiados, y las más de las persecuciones son efecto de la manía persecutoria que no de la perseguidora.
~ Miguel de Unamuno
I never think environmental hazards are going to kill me. I only think serial killers are.
~ Mindy Kaling
In my paranoid world every storekeeper thinks I'm stealing, every man thinks I'm a prostitute or a lesbian, every woman thinks I'm a lesbian or arrogant, and every child and animal sees the real me and it is evil.
~ Miranda July
1. The ego is the paranoia of intuition. 2. The cocoon of the quantum biofield of philosophy, the aura of emotions and feelings translates from one dimension of thinking to another. Author: Musin Almat Zhumabekovich
~ Unknown
All the worst and worst in a person is all this mistrust in the fog of fear, which gives rise to hallucinations of skepticism.
~ Unknown
Who wants you dead, Max?" "You, apparently. I didn't realize I was such a poor dinner companion.
~ Unknown
grandiose paranoid schizophrenia.
~ Nancy Kress
People love conspiracy theories.
~ Neil Armstrong
She struck Darden as the kind whose corpse would kick you three days after you shot her.
~ Nevada Barr
Francis Wheen will release Strange Days Indeed: The Golden Age of Paranoia
~ Nick Cohen
As a result, Brian's competitive side took a particularly vicious hammering and the whole experience seemed to have left him more paranoid than ever before.
~ Unknown
If I was not having much fun, David was certainly not having an easy time either. Roger was studiously ignoring any of David's suggestions, which is why he probably wanted Michael on board to augment the musical input. In many ways Michael was probably as much a substitute for David as for Rick or Bob, given his melodic strengths and his experience in writing, and arranging. It may well have been paranoia, but it did look as though David was being frozen out.
~ Nick Mason
I got this idea about being afraid to let go of something and being afraid of sinking into a state of almost anesthesia, where you have to trust other people. Just the paranoia of it all. And it seemed to suit the frenetic track. So I just wrote it out and, you know, said it.
~ Nick Rhodes
Paranoia over being cheated out of one's rightful share. Along with feeling that they are not appreciated, these individuals are routinely concerned about who gets credit and who gets blame. No credit given to them is ever enough, and too much offered to a teammate is flat-out wrong. They are concerned not with the team's success, but with whether they are going to get credit for any success.
~ Nick Saban
Her uncle saw plots under every bench but it didn't make him wrong.
~ Nicola Griffith
One of the symptoms of senile dementia is suspicion and the other is paranoia.
~ Nien Cheng
They were terrified out of their wits, the devil knows why: they take you for a brigand and a spy. And the prosecutor has died of fright; the funeral is to-morrow. Won't you be there?
~ Nikolai Gogol
What they got, really, was a cross-section of American paranoia, of hidden prejudices rising to the surface. Whatever diverged from the mainstream was suspect.
~ Unknown