Paranoia Quotes · Page 9

“...she was so afraid of everything that she made it impossible to really enjoy anything at all.”

— Lemony Snicket

For all the claims one hears about the liberating impact of the data-net, the truth is that it's wished on most of…

— John Brunner

I felt like the world of baseball in 1919 was much closer to what A-ball would be now - guys riding buses,…

— D. B. Sweeney

Suffering for your art is most definitely overrated but I do get a certain, I don't know, satisfaction from being able to…

— Beth Gibbons

“just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean I'm not stupid. Wait... Let me start over...”

— Cary Caffrey

It's impossible to write about the Kennedy assassination and its aftermath without taking note of twenty-five years of paranoia which has collected…

— Don DeLillo

A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves.

— Dan Savage

African Americans have always known that a little bit of paranoia was healthy for us.

— Cynthia McKinney

My own reaction from a distance is that Pol Pot's demise as the leader of the Khmer Rouge was inevitable, and that…

— Sydney Schanberg

I will never be one of the happy stupid that were born somewhere. This way of life is excellent for the imagination.…

— Amelie Nothomb

A baby is born into this world in a state of fear. Total paranoia and awareness. He sees the world with eyes…

— Charles Manson

In A-ball, you're either going to move up, or you're going to get released. That kind of paranoia played a lot into…

— D. B. Sweeney

My biggest fear is that I become useless or less useful by not being up to date - be it with technology,…

— Paul Polman

“Paranoia, he said, was fundamentally egocentric, and every conspiracy theory served in some way to aggrandize the believer. But he was also…

— William Gibson

“Paranoia is transmissible from mind to mind, but it does not go by the route of reason. It can therefore change its…

— William Nicholls

The rich are not a contented tribe. The demands from others to share their wealth become so tiresome, so insistent, they often…

— Felix Dennis

As a mode of perception that often becomes a style of life, paranoia weaves around the vulnerable self or group an air-tight…

— Sam Keen

Paranoia imposes its own vision on the external world; it differs from other kinds of visionary experience in that the paranoid wants…

— Louis Simpson

Who's they?" He wanted to know. "Who, specifically, do you think is trying to murder you?" "Every one of them," Yossarian told…

— Joseph Heller

"I know perfectly well that at this moment the whole universe is listening to us," Jean Giraudoux wrote in The Madwoman of…

— Frank Drake

These illustrations suggest four general maxims[...]. The first is: remember that your motives are not always as altruistic as they seem to…

— Bertrand Russell

I told myself: 'I am surrounded by unknown things.' I imagined man without ears, suspecting the existence of sound as we suspect…

— Guy de Maupassant

When I was a child, I used to go wandering - disused railway-lines, old barns, dry-stone walls, strangely Pre-Raphaelite copses - it's…

— Suhayl Saadi

“Although he was a young and virile man at 37, he was not inexhaustible. In addition to food and drink, he had…

— Dean Koontz

Paranoia is a state of heightened awareness. Most people are persecuted beyond their wildest delusions.

— Claude Steiner

“There are those who always think the worst of people. That's because they are the worst of people.”

— Marsha Hinds

Let's not become so worried about not offending anybody that we lose the ability to distinguish between respect and paranoia.

— Larry King

“Sadly, it seems that I have the proclivity to create plenty of devils, but most of the time I don’t even go…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“A privileging of individual rights over group goods can lead to serious problems, as we’ve seen with the antivaccination movement.”

— Emily Matchar

“More often than not, if a person is wearing a smile, there is a victim attached somewhere.”

— Donald Gorman

Paranoid? Probably. But just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face.

— Jim Butcher

Everybody looking at you crazy, What you gon' do? Lift up your head and keep moving, Or let the paranoia haunt you?

— Kendrick Lamar

Paranoia is just another mask for ignorance. The truth, when you finally chase it down is almost always far worse than your…

— Hunter S. Thompson

“My paranoia wasn't always right, but just to be on the safe side, I never went to sleep with a clown in…

— Mark Henwick

“Pia. “Maybe I’m being paranoid.” “Paranoid is a lot better than stupid, sugar.” Eva.”

— Thea Harrison

I think the best horror is often a metaphor or keys into people's real life paranoia.

— Ti West

I worked for MI6 in the Sixties, during the great witch-hunts, when the shared paranoia of the Cold War gripped the services.

— John le Carre

“Paranoia is just a heightened state of awareness. I didn't say it, but I repeat it often enough.”

— Gerald Everett Jones

“The habit of misery had twisted these people, driving them to this paranoia. What had been diligence turned to desperation.”

— Duong Thu Huong

It was a trap after all,” Alric said. He turned to Royce. “My apologies for doubting your sound paranoia.

— Michael J. Sullivan