Paranoiac's Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. The form in which thoughts occur to a writer is rarely the same as the form in which they can be absorbed by a reader. The advice in this and other stylebooks is not so much on how to write as on how to revise.

Steven Pinker

#4. God loves you simply because He has chosen to do so. He loves you when you don't feel lovely. He loves you when no one else loves you. Others may abandon you, divorce you, and ignore you, but God will love you always. No matter what!

Max Lucado

#5. Love, our love, had been a shooting star, burning in the darkness, unseen until it got too close, too bright and too quick to capture. It burned out, lost to the deep cold and darkness, to the brutality of space, the infinity above us and in the new emptiness inside of me.

Karina Halle

#6. 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

#7. Who is all-powerful in the world? Who is most dreadful in the world? The machine. Who is most fair, most wealthy, and all-wise? The machine. What is the earth? A machine. What is the sky? A machine. What is man? A machine. A machine.

Leonid Andreyev

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

Salvador Dali

#9. I bill myself as a naturalist because if you say you're a naturalist, it gives people a conversation point to talk about what you actually do believe in, instead of when you say you're an atheist, and it's really just a statement of what you don't believe in.

Greg Graffin

#10. Poetry is an art of expressing the unknown music of our inner feelings and emotions in our known language.

Debasish Mridha

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

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

Anne Lamott

#15. 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

#16. It is difficult to reconstruct an emotion. At times it is difficult even to admit to one. I have practiced long and hard at denying entry to such twin imposters as triumph and disaster, or love and hate, but sometimes the barriers are breached.

Simon Mawer

#17. 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

#18. I truly feel absolutely at home on the stage. It's very comfortable to me. It's very much my workplace, very much my workplace. I feel that an audience and I are happy with one another. I'm grateful for that.

Ruth Cracknell

#19. 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

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

Luis Bunuel

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

Paulo Coelho

#22. I was a total theater geek in high school, no question. I was cast in 'Godspell' freshman year - with Vanessa Williams, by the way. She and I are still friends. We went to high school together.

Dan Bucatinsky

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

J.D. Salinger

#24. Oh, I don't know, may be because I was, ya know, a little distracted by THE VOICE IN MY HEAD! Jacque realized she was yelling.

Quinn Loftis

#25. Out of many thousands among men, one may endeavor for perfection, and of those who have achieved perfection, hardly one knows Me in truth.

A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

#26. 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

#27. The truth is there's always been someone to tell me what to do. The church. The people who I work for. The caseworker. And I can't stand the idea of being alone. I can't bear the thought of being free.
Survivor

Chuck Palahniuk

#28. 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