Quotes About Paranoia

I grew up in a country where I remember my parents not being able to have a conversation on the phone. The walls had ears, and you couldn't speak freely.

I have a theory that you can tell what the head of a company is like by the people who work there. I knew a publishing house that was run on fear and paranoia, and I felt sorry for everyone who worked there. Needless to say, the person at the helm was not known for kindness, warmth, or grace.

The world has become one big grassy knoll, crawling with lone gunmen who think they're the Warren Commission.

I'm a little bit wary of people. It freaked me out when a fan connected with me on social media, then had plastic surgery to look like me, dyed his hair the same colour, and got a pug dog like mine. He was also a hacker, so I had to change all my passwords.

I think there's a certain paranoia about science because there is a certain risk related to science which people are very wary about, and therefore, there is an inherent risk aversion to science and technology or, at least, science and technology of unknown.

I don't trust Santa Barbara as far as I can spit. I am afraid that if I went back there, it's possible that I could be run through their system, their judicial system, and wind up in some county jail where I could be killed and I'm not gonna take that chance.

Studies have been done on people who believe in conspiracies. Clinical paranoia, plus nonspecific rage, are two common components. Crazy and angry: a dangerous combination.

Fearful people always find reasons to confirm their worst fears.

**(C)(P)- I COINED AND CREATED THE TERM-POSTURAL CEREBRATION- WHICH REFERS TO THE- UNCONTROLLED ACTIONS- OF THE MIND/BRAIN AT CERTAIN TIMES OF DAY OR NIGHT WHICH ARE CAPABLE OF CAUSING ANXIETY ATTACKS, PARANOIA, FEAR, AND HYSTERIA.MANY PEOPLE SUFFER THIS NOT KNOWING WHAT CAUSES IT..LIKE A MIND RACING OUT OF CONTROL. MY RESEARCH CONTINUES.

There is nothing like the cure of fresh air for cases of bladder infection, paranoia, and Cartesian thinking.

Every time I pass a cafe, I imagine it being stormed by men with Kalashnikovs.

You never know when someone is videotaping you or trying to capture your image. I see how it makes some people crazy.

If I had to pick one scary movie, I'd go with John Carpenter's 'The Thing.' That's probably number one.

When I leave a recording session, there is usually a lot of paranoia or superstition on my part, like I'm afraid to hear what we've done.

Recently, a friend sent me the online musings of a televangelist who advised his thousands of followers that the Federal Reserve achieved satanic ends by manipulating the world's money supply. Paranoia has replaced piety.

People often express surprise that I'm not a psychopath. But it's not about what I want to do to other people, it's that I'm scared of what other people might do to me.

It was always more frightening when the purported spy was a suburban WASP, one of us. KGB agents in Willamette or Des Moines

If you think someone is seriously on the prod for your ass, it keeps you awake.

In fact, the idea of the paranoid style would have little contemporary relevance or historical value if it were applied only to people with profoundly disturbed minds. It is the use of paranoid modes of expression by more or less normal people that makes the phenomenon significant.

These writers illustrate the central preconception of the paranoid style—the existence of a vast, insidious, preternaturally effective international conspiratorial network designed to perpetrate acts of the most fiendish character.

One of the most impressive facts about the paranoid style, in this connection, is that it represents an old and recurrent mode of expression in our public life which has frequently been linked with movements of suspicious discontent and whose content remains much the same even when it is adopted by men of distinctly different purposes. Our experience suggests too that, while it comes in waves of different intensity, it appears to be all but ineradicable.

Viver sozinho tem momentos de auto-comiseração e paranóia.

Dabei steckte mir nach meiner traurigen Jugend das altbekannte, für die späte Pubertät so typische Gefühlsgemisch aus Stolz und Verzweiflung noch tief in den Knochen, wenn man sich hochnäsig für etwas Besseres hält, aber gleichzeitig an sozialer Paranoia leidet.

The man said, "The vaccine put microchips in my brain." Callie confided, "I'm worried my cat is saving up to buy a motorcycle.