Paranoia Quotes

Fear of vikings build castles.

— Charles Manson

Paranoia is knowing all the facts.

— Woody Allen

Success demands paranoia.

— Joseph Finder

Candor disarms paranoia.

— Allen Ginsberg

“Call me paranoid. I'm frequently right.”

— Seanan McGuire

Total paranoia is just total awareness.

— Charles Manson

“Paranoia is at most annoying!”

— Anthony Liccione

“fraudulent blue ozone”

— Knut Hamsun

“A little paranoia crawls into my lap, purring loudly.”

— Mohsin Hamid

Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then.

— Philip K. Dick

Now, I love playing moms who can't hide their paranoia.

— Wendi McLendon-Covey

“PARANOIA NOVELS ARE FUN. OTHER NOVELS ARE NOT FUN. READ PARANOIA.”

— Anonymous

If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.

— Tacitus

Create delusion. Establish doubt. Feed paranoia.

— John Katzenbach

“Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you. - Joseph Heller”

— Blake Crouch

“Don't be a little paranoid; worry about everything, or let it all go.”

— James Alan Gardner

I'm afraid of my mother's paranoia. The more she watches Fox News, the more afraid she gets.

— Scott Adsit

“There’s nothing more refreshing than a good dose of paranoia after sex. ~ Tara Cole”

— Cindy Cruciger

“Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe nothing's wrong and I'm just paranoid. I'll know when they come in. I'll see it in their faces.”

— Carla Speed McNeil

Psychedelic drugs cause paranoia, confusion, and total loss of reality in politicians that have never taken them.

— Timothy Leary

“I swear that I will never cause trouble for anybody, as long as I live!! So please! Nobody cause any trouble for…

— Minoru Furuya

Pol Pot carried out through the years enormous purges against his own followers because of his paranoia.

— Sydney Schanberg

“What you’ve got to understand, son,” says the doctor, “is it’s all the fault of the alien space bats.”

— Cory Doctorow

Little girl, he called me. A little girl who is stressed out to the point of paranoia. That is not me, but…

— Veronica Roth

“It is so easy at times for a lonely individual to begin fantasizing about what the people outside are saying about him…

— Criss Jami

“For there either was some Tristero beyond the appearance of the legacy America, or there was just America, and if there was…

— Thomas Pynchon

If there is something comforting - religious, if you want - about paranoia, there is still also anti-paranoia, where nothing is connected…

— Thomas Pynchon

“It’s all society is, the repressed sex drives of men, the objectification of women, their paranoia, the posturing, the macho stances, the…

— Trevor D. Richardson

Paranoia is a survival trait when you run in my circles. It gives you something to do in your spare time, coming…

— Jim Butcher

“With girls house bristles with suspicion and frigidity; how much is paranoia transference? The damnable thing is that they can sense insecurity…

— Sylvia Plath

Many people I know in Los Angeles believe that the Sixties ended abruptly on August 9, 1969, ended at the exact moment…

— Joan Didion

There are 316 million people in the United States of America. About six million of them watch 'Homeland,' Showtime's thriller about world…

— Stephen Rodrick

“Paranoia has its downsides as an agency in daily life, or in the political sphere of collective action, which finds itself beset…

— Jonathan Lethem

“I tend to interpret that whole 'everyone's wife is a Mossad agent' thing in a more sort of metaphorical way--that people you're…

— Mark Leyner

Sometimes, a scene goes on too long and, with this being a suspense story and murder mystery that you're trying to discover…

— Catherine Hardwicke

“His persistence allowed us to play a game, and pretend that everything can stay as it is now forever. It cannot. The…

— Frances Hardinge

“Sometimes, you know, I just want to curl up and see if anyone notices I’m not there. But I know time is…

— Rae Earl

“I haven’t slept in two days so I feel tired now, lying on my sleeping bag. My feet are very cold but…

— Sam Pink

I am talking about ultimate deceit. I am talking about unparalleled treachery. Bottomless lies. Depths that are seen that are previously unimaginable.…

— Henry Rollins

“Emily felt the sweet strains of paranoia drifting back. They told her to look over her shoulder, and when she did, they…

— Amelia Gray