“The are times When you may think that people are staring at you - They are.” — Carla Speed McNeil Copy Share Image
I like to stay cozy with my paranoia, not pass her around to my friends and family. — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
I have an advanced degree in procrastination and another one in paranoia. — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
“When one is experiencing failure, it is hard to resist the comfort of paranoia.” — Thomas M. Disch Copy Share Image
“Eleven-year-old paranoia was powerful. Eleven-year-old relief was euphoric.” — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“A lifetime of mediocrity is a high price to pay for safety. Paranoia undoes greatness.” — Todd Henry Copy Share Image
We routinely leave our small children in day care among strangers. At the same time, in our guilt we evince paranoia about… — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
“Language stops being a tool; it becomes a map, not to truth but to the person who wrote it.” — Arabella Sveinsdottir Copy Share Image
Mathematicians tend to prefer a worst-case analysis, a kind of paranoia that is especially understandable if you live in Israel! — Noga Alon Copy Share Image
“Paranoia is when you think everyone is talking about you and they’re not. Hell is when you think everyone is talking about… — Juliann Rich Copy Share Image
Is my paranoia getting completely out of hand, or are you mongoloids really talking about me? — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share Image
“With paranoia on my heels Will you love me still When we awake and you see that The sanity has gone from… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
Smart people understand that there is no such thing as paranoia. It is just another mask for ignorance. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“Paranoia is acceptable in the new friendship paradigm. Worrying that your best employees or customers might leave is ok, as long as… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
“The serious Sylvia was agonizing over the execution of the Rosenbergs and McCarthyism; others were delighting to dream over trousseau lingerie at… — Elizabeth Winder Copy Share Image
“Batman: What have I told you about trusting dangerous and obsessive criminal geniuses? Wonder Woman: To be fair, you tend to warn… — Landry Q. Walker Copy Share Image
“Was is paranoia? Exaggeration? A lie? This happens almost daily. This is why you call another mother when something happens, good or… — Ad Hudler Copy Share Image
The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think… — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
I don't believe in fate or destiny. I believe in various degrees of hatred, paranoia, and abandonment. However much of that gets… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Paranoia reduces anxiety and guilt by transferring to the other all the characteristics one does not want to recognize in oneself. It… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
Consensual paranoia - the pathology of the normal person who is a member of a war-justifying society - forms the template from… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
“[T]he relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios--the overwhelming and underlying desire for something truly terrible to… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
When an editor works with an author, she cannot help seeing into the medicine cabinet of his soul. All the terrible emotions,… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
“Dr. Talbon was struck by another very important thing. It all hung together. The stories Cheryl told — even though it was… — Cheryl Hersha Copy Share Image
“I am disturbed to discover that my colleagues have invented a new game which seems to involve attempting to kill me in… — Stanley Donwood Copy Share Image
“I hold the biscuits in front of his face and he stands up. "What do I have to do?" he says. "Nothing,"… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“Paranoia is sort of like a forwards-looking curiosity. It’s asking, “Why could go wrong here?” “What else matters here?”… — Sebastian Marshall Copy Share Image
“Poor things, she thought - do they have to spend all this energy just to surround me? It seemed pitiful that these… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
“Americans may say they love our accents (I have been accused of sounding 'like Princess Di') but the more thoughtful ones resent… — Peter Hitchens Copy Share Image
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