“The are times When you may think that people are staring at you - They are.” — Carla Speed McNeil Copy Share Image
I have an advanced degree in procrastination and another one in paranoia. — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
“We wouldn't steal, which was paranoia- we would take, which was force.” — Darin Bradley 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
The worm of paranoia begins to eat into even the hardest adversary. — David Ignatius 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
Is my paranoia getting completely out of hand, or are you mongoloids really talking about me? — John Kennedy Toole 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
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
For paranoia about 'what other people think' : remember that only some hate, a very few love - and almost all just… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“It will strike all countries. The global economic crisis could plunge 500 million people into poverty, so stated in a position paper… — Dr. Karina Reiss Copy Share Image
Anyone with the right mix of parental paranoia and entrepreneurial moxie can make a fortune by selling parents the equipment we think… — Nancy Gibbs 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
“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
“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
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
“There’s always someone bigger and badder who can knock you off your perch—even if you’re me. Never forget it and you don’t… — C.J. Ellisson Copy Share Image
I'd like to see a really good kind of closeted 1950s vampire movies. The war is over, the Korean war is over,… — Robert Englund Copy Share Image
I think you get mentally ill being homeless. Most of the bag ladies wind up mentally ill pretty quickly - what people… — Alix Kates Shulman Copy Share Image
“Never let your fear of the unknown and things being too difficult make your choices for you in life. One of the… — Shannon L. Alder 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
“[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
“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
“At first, sending the confession by real mail had felt like a genius device. I would not have to sit by my… — Olivia Sudjic 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
“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
“Welcome my new paranoia, if you are not my reality, so where the hell is the fucking reality!?!?! To be or not… — Fereidoon Yazdi Copy Share Image
“Shaver’s worldview was a deeply paranoid one in which pretty much everything of importance was traced back to evil deros and sinister… — Jeffrey J. Kripal Copy Share Image
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