Paranoiac Quotes

#1. A paranoiac, my friend, is a person who has gone crazy in the most intelligent, well-informed way, the world being what it is. The paranoiac believes that great secret conspiracies are afoot to destroy him.

Philip K. Dick

#2. If God had commanded Noah to build an ark for consumer goods instead of animals - and if Noah had been a drunken paranoiac - his ark might have resembled this apartment.

John Wray

#3. Paranoiac-critical activity makes the world of delirium pass onto the plane of reality ...

Salvador Dali

#4. She was an extremely attractive woman if you liked the type, which could best be described as homicidal schizophrenic paranoiac with kittenish overtones.

Robert Sheckley

#5. We may say that hysteria is a caricature of an artistic creation, a compulsion neurosis a caricature of a religion, and a paranoiac delusion a caricature of a philosophic system.

Sigmund Freud

#6. Oh, God, if I'm anything by a clinical name, I'm a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I think people are plotting to make me happy.

J.D. Salinger

#7. extreme divers are exacting and disciplined when they are in the water. They share the paranoiac's conviction that the worst will always try to happen, at the worst possible time.

Phillip Finch

#8. I'm probably just as good a mother as the next repressed, obsessive-compulsive paranoiac.

Anne Lamott

#9. We just didn't get it. We were weakened and exhilarated at the same time. A paranoiac's nightmare! A narcissist's dream! We didn't know how to feel: flattered or raped. Maybe both. We were puzzling at breakneck speed.

Steve Toltz

#10. I believe that the moment is near when
by a procedure of active paranoiac thought, it will be possible to systematize confusion and contribute to the total discrediting of the world of reality.

Salvador Dali

#11. Since so much of the poetry machine is consumed in and with the mirroring and the reproduction of what is already preexistent, I don't understand why such paranoiac conservatism is dedicated to labels. It's a way of controlling the "other," to label them.

Fady Joudah

#12. I will never be one of the happy stupid that were born somewhere. This way of life is excellent for the imagination. It develops your paranoia. You feel paranoid when you don't understand a country, and being paranoiac is excellent for fiction.

Amelie Nothomb

#13. A paranoiac like a poet, is born, not made.

Luis Bunuel

#14. The more attention you pay an enemy, the stronger you make him. Be attentive, but don't be paranoiac.

Paulo Coelho

#15. I'm a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

J.D. Salinger

#16. The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think the paranoiac the more impressive of the two because he is sufficient unto himself and cannot be shaken by failure.

Elias Canetti

#17. Everything you need comes into focus when you abandon the unneeded.

Bryant McGill

#18. I don't know who's worse with little boys, Mario or Michael Jackson.

Dustin Diamond

#19. There's something inherently comic about the fact that politicians make things worse by worrying too much about something.

Armando Iannucci

#20. 'Going Back to Cali' is one of my favorite songs because of all the East Coast - West Coast rivalry.

ASAP Ferg

#21. I've been vegetarian for so long now that I don't remember anything different, so it's easy for me to put meals together and make sure my family is eating healthy, too.

Christina Applegate

#22. Wesley mantra
Look but don't touch ... look but don't touch ...

Tiffany Reisz

#23. Youth would be too happy, might it add to its own beauty and felicity the wisdom and experience of riper years. Were it possible for it to realize the worth of time, as life's receding hours reveal it, how rapidly would it press on towards perfection!

Lydia Sigourney

#24. It's been a huge blessing, being able to travel and have a great life.

Seann William Scott