Quotes About Paranoia

She spent the next hour dividing her time between the phone and the computer; scaring the ever-loving shit out of herself while waiting on hold by investiGoogling type 2 diabetes on her laptop. She found one nut who claimed diabetes was a governmental plot to extract billions of dollars from the unsuspecting public in order to wage the war for oil.

A MAN FEARED A man feared that he might find an assassin; Another that he might find a victim. One was more wise than the other.

Allow me to assure you, that suspicion and jealousy never did help any man in any situation.

Like all mad men, I thought everyone was mad except myself.

We're going to die," Keith said, the moment he was gone. "This man is a serial killer. We're going to die, and he's going to bury us in his garden and build a shed on us.

Maybe the life I think I'm living is a paranoid delusion...Sanity is a valuable possession; I hoard it the way people once hoarded money. I save it, so I will have enough, when the time comes.

That's the worst thing about money - the moment you have some you begin to suspect everyone of trying to take it away from you. And usually they are.

Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested.

The more attention you pay an enemy, the stronger you make him. Be attentive, but don't be paranoiac.

William Goldman, Marathon Man

The laws of nature are only as immutable as the minds which promote them. Ignorance of the law is 9/10ths of the law. Just because you aren't paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you.

Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.

I feared my own kind more than anything the natural world could ever threaten me with.

Man will destroy what man fears!

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

There is an element of paranoia in this inclination to view any serious attempt at a compromised peace as somehow directed against Israel.

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.

A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.

At bottom, every state regards another as a gang of robbers who will fall upon it as soon as there is an opportunity.

Ik besef plotseling dat ik in een voortdurende vrees leef te moeten bestaan in een maatschappij waar iedereen iedereen voor de gek houdt.

No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine.

I don't care how paranoid and irrational this makes me sound, but I know for a fact that the people of Paris want me dead.

quoting a Persian proverb, "those once bitten by a snake fear even a twisted rope.

Those once bitten by a snake fear even a twisted rope.