Balancing act Quote by wildbow

“His success was due in part to his ability to spread his own paranoia, the fear that there was always somebody about to attack.”

— Joshua Davis

“Experience had taught me it's better to be wary and feel ridiculous than to get conked on the head, or abducted, or whatever the…

— Charlaine Harris

“Paranoid theorizing was too easy, too emotionally satisfying.”

— Graham Moore

“Fear manifested itself as a physical presence that seemed to dominate the public sphere. Time almost stopped. Even without confirmation I could sense that…

— Phindiwe Nkosi

“Thrown from my secure life, whether by chance or the Powers That Be, I was sitting on a skipping stone and it was fear,…

— James Campion Conway

“In spite of the three hours I spent combing over the details, I have, to this day, a very persistent certainty that hidden inside…

— Tony Burgess

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

— William Gibson

“What do you fear when you fear everything? Time passing and not passing. Death and life. I could say my lungs never filled with…

— Adam Haslett

“The inability to trust ourselves is the most menacing danger.”

— Jac Jemc

“On his very worst day, each one of these men managed to summon his very best. Each one embodied the essence of courage. It…

— Susan Wiggs

“Merely reminding people of a time when they had power increases their apparent trust in their own intuition.”

— Daniel Kahneman

“security—the feeling that nothing could change seriously for the worse, and that the life that you had was invulnerable—was illusory and even dangerous.”

— Theodore Dalrymple