Top 100 Paranoia's Quotes
#1. Not me, paranoia's the garlic in life's kitchen, right, you can never have too much.
Thomas Pynchon
#4. There's an overwhelming sense of paranoia in the suburbs. People there seem so much more paranoid to me than people in the city about their kids being kidnapped or their parties being raided or their drinks being spiked. There's a kind of hysteria about that.
Meg Rosoff
#5. It's all society is, the repressed sex drives of men, the objectification of women, their paranoia, the posturing, the macho stances, the beauty standard, it's all just one charade masking a never ending hard on.
Trevor D. Richardson
#6. His father's general mistrust of the future carried through to his thoughts on women. Like success, women would inevitably turn on you someday. He had a suspicion of women that bordered on paranoia. His son internalized these views as well:
Susan Forward
#8. What would Warhol be without his paranoia, Hunter S. Thompson without his Quaaludes, Johnny Cash without his philandering? We Somebodies are not expected to walk the line.
J.T. Lawrence
#9. Pronoia is the antidote for paranoia. It's the understanding that the universe is fundamentally friendly. It's a mode of training your senses and intellect so you're able to perceive the fact that life always gives you exactly what you need, exactly when you need it.
Rob Brezsny
#10. When the universe presented unexpected gifts to the undeserving, how else were they to react, except with sheer paranoia?
Matthew S. Williams
#11. I think paranoia goes from generation to generation. It's convenient to imagine that there's a few people controlling everything, that way it's manageable and small. But that's not life, life is messy.
Robert Downey Jr.
#12. One person's "paranoia" is another person's "engineering redundancy."
Marcus J. Ranum
#13. There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.
Hunter S. Thompson
#14. I just live my life how I live as a person. I certainly am not, like, a saint or an angel by any means. I'm not anything like that. But I live just how I live. I mean, I have a little paranoia, but that's about it.
Emma Stone
#15. Fear festers in the imagination. It's not fear's fault. That's just the way it's made. Nightmares breed. Allies become enemies. Subversives are everywhere. Paranoia justifies any persecution, and privacy is a luxury when the Reds have the bomb.
Lauren Beukes
#17. It is always reassuring to be disabused of one's own paranoia.
Muriel Barbery
#18. If you force yourself to be the same as everyone else. It causes neuroses, psychoses, and paranoia. it's a distortion of nature, it goes against God's laws, for in all the world's woods and forests he did not create a single leaf the same as another.
Paulo Coelho
#19. Insanity is the only real escape from the banality of our lives.
- Clara Bayliss
John Hennessy
#20. I'm scared to death of being poor. It's like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always fat inside. I grew up poor and will always feel poor inside. It's my pet paranoia.
Cher
#21. Being closer to the genesis of this whole period, it captured the importance of the concept of making contact and accurately depicted the paranoia of the time. It's an excellent film.
Dwight Schultz
#22. Let's not become so worried about not offending anybody that we lose the ability to distinguish between respect and paranoia.
Larry King
#23. For all the claims one hears about the liberating impact of the data-net, the truth is that it's wished on most of us a brand-new reason for paranoia.
John Brunner
#24. You have to be very mean to get a laugh on the campaign trail. There is no such thing as paranoia.
Hunter S. Thompson
#25. My own reaction from a distance is that Pol Pot's demise as the leader of the Khmer Rouge was inevitable, and that his own paranoia did him in as much as anything else.
Sydney Schanberg
#26. I don't believe in fate or destiny. I believe in various degrees of hatred, paranoia, and abandonment. However much of that gets heaped upon you doesn't matter - it's only a matter of how much you can take and what it does to you.
Henry Rollins
#27. I don't want to promote paranoia. It's not like wow, everybody is after me. You know that's not going to be very powerful. A person like Stalin was like that and he was powerful, but it ended up completely destroying him because he couldn't trust anyone.
Robert Greene
#28. I object in the strongest possible terms to the fact that the instant we stumble over possibly the most important thing anybody's ever found anywhere ever, the first thing SC does is snap into Full-Scale Raving Paranoia mode and apply this M32 total-secrecy-or-we'll-pull-your-plugs-out-baby
Anonymous
#29. 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
#30. In an era of parental paranoia, lawsuit mania and testing frenzy, we are failing to inspire our children's curiosity, creativity, and imagination. We are denying them opportunities to tinker, discover, and explore - in short, to play.
Darell Hammond
#31. Paranoia is just another mask for ignorance. The truth, when you finally chase it down is almost always far worse than your darkest visions and fears
Hunter S. Thompson
#33. My Spidey-sense had been tingling since I found the empty car. Sometimes it's not paranoia; it's just the truth.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#34. What you've got to understand, son," says the doctor, "is it's all the fault of the alien space bats.
Cory Doctorow
#36. There are those who always think the worst of people. That's because they are the worst of people.
Marsha Hinds
#37. This is a do-it-yourself test for paranoia: you know you've got it when you can't think of anything that's your fault.
Robert M. Hutchins
#38. To have paranoia, it's nothing bad it's like your antivurs system on your computer, it makes as much secure as possible.
Deyth Banger
#39. There's nothing more refreshing than a good dose of paranoia after sex. ~ Tara Cole
Cindy Cruciger
#40. I think his [Reagan's] policy toward the Soviet Union was more risky than most people realize, and it was risky because of the paranoia and fear among the isolated old guard in Moscow.
David E. Hoffman
#41. Among the Internet's many gains for humanity, decreasing paranoia has not been one of them. Anything from that lump under your armpit to what's lurking in the sea - just type it into a search engine and watch your nerves explode.
John Niven
#42. Perhaps some guest editors would keep Ethel and Julius Rosenberg in their peripheral vision. But Sylvia recognized their execution as the most extreme and gruesome example of McCarthy's red-baiting paranoia.
Elizabeth Winder
#43. Caution is a spy's best friend; paranoia is his enemy.
Jack Barsky
#44. There's a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something.
Billy Joel
#45. For paranoia was Zig's late style: How else but through networks and conspiracies could he fashion a target big enough for his outrage? Richard usually found paranoia uninteresting, insofar as it swept away the incidental, which was the real grist of history.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#46. Little girl, he called me. A little girl who is stressed out to the point of paranoia. That is not me, but now, it's who the Candor think I am.
Veronica Roth
#47. It's useful to be able to recognize whether you're on track or not. To have that belief, but also paranoia about am I tracking against my investment thesis.
Reid Hoffman
#48. Anyone not paranoid in this world must be crazy ... Speaking of paranoia, it's true that I do not know exactly who my enemies are. But that of course is exactly why I'm paranoid.
Edward Abbey
#49. My well-discussed 'paranoia' urges me to believe that some tiny segment of the NSA's parsing algorithm is finely tuned to my voice.
John McAfee
#50. 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 have to worry about corruption. You'll be too afraid with watching your own back.
Alexandria "Dria" McAndrews
C.J. Ellisson
#51. I always feel like an interloper when I do serious drama. It's my own paranoia.
Johnny Vegas
#52. As far as the regime is concerned, well, the play is sheer terror for them. Because they feel, How dare - how dare anybody lift his or her voice in criticism against us? We have the guns. Their level of paranoia and power-drunkenness is unbelievable.
Wole Soyinka
#54. Paranoia
because why should the conspiracy theorists get to have all the fun?
Jim Butcher
#55. These are the Seven Deadly Sins: Avarice, Envy, Pride, Gluttony, Lust, Anger, Sloth. These are the seven deadly sins: venality, paranoia, insecurity, excess, carnality, contempt, boredom.
Martin Amis
#56. Behind every unquestionable belief is a system of control.
Graeme Rodaughan
#57. The beginning of revolutions is psychologically strikingly akin to that of certain relationships: the stress on unity, the sense of omnipotence, the desire to eliminate secrets (with the fear of the opposite soon leading to lover's paranoia and the creation of a secret police).
Alain De Botton
#58. Mubarak was so paranoid that anyone he perceived as competent became a threat to him.
Wael Ghonim
#59. Energy always flows either toward hope, community, love, generosity, mutual recognition, and spiritual aliveness or it flows toward despair, cynicism, fear that there is not enough, paranoia about the intentions of others, and a desire to control.
Michael Lerner
#60. A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves.
Dan Savage
#61. The serious Sylvia was agonizing over the execution of the Rosenbergs and McCarthyism; others were delighting to dream over trousseau lingerie at Vanity Fair's showroom.
Elizabeth Winder
#62. America is in a state of somnolence. It's an avoidance of paranoia through ignoring reality.
John McAfee
#63. brilliant and audacious as ever - a beat poet of paranoia. He
Jon Ronson
#64. Sometimes paranoids have enemies, and conspiracies are only laughable when they fail to materialize.
Jon Meacham
#65. We're hallucinating. And that's what this world is: a mass hallucination, where fear seems more real than love. Fear is an illusion. Our craziness, paranoia, anxiety and trauma are literally all imagined.
Marianne Williamson
#66. There is a real comfort with the position of the victim, which can either result in true empathy or deep paranoia.
Jill Soloway
#67. We must content ourselves with the mystery, the absurdity, the contradictions, the hostility, but also the generosity that our environment offers us. It's not much, but it's always better than the deadly, defeatist certainty of the paranoid.
Philip K. Dick
#68. In my films quite often, paranoia usually leads to the truth so it is kind of a psychological state of mind to think that what you fear may come true, and those are the types of stories that I like to tell.
Larry Fessenden
#69. Coming from Canada, being a writer and Jewish as well, I have impeccable paranoia credentials.
Mordecai Richler
#71. I learned how but I have a terrible paranoia and fear. I do not drive an automobile.
Nikki Cox
#72. The rich are not a contented tribe. The demands from others to share their wealth become so tiresome, so insistent, they often decide they must insulate themselves. Insulation eventually breeds a mild form of paranoia.
Felix Dennis
#73. Rodney is fifty four and he has some mental disease where they become all paranoid. Granted he spent his life as a vampire slayer which calls for a bit of paranoia but Rodney does sometimes overdo the whole thing.
Cyma Rizwaan Khan
#74. It is not the homeless, mentally ill or extremely cunning people that we have to be afraid of. When someone loses everything that meant something to them is when people should get very afraid. A person that has nothing to lose is the scariest person on earth.
Shannon L. Alder
#77. We will never know if any other president approached Nixon in paranoia, profanity or potential criminality, since only his conversations were captured, subpoenaed and ultimately released on the front pages of newspapers.
Nancy Gibbs
#78. People can get obsessed with romance, they can get obsessed with political paranoia, they can get obsessed with horror. It's isn't the fault of the subject matter that creates the obsession, I don't think.
Adam Arkin
#79. All through my life I've had this strange unaccountable feeling that something was going on in the world, something big, even sinister, and no one would tell me what it was."
"No," said the old man, "that's just perfectly normal paranoia. Everyone in the Universe has that.
Douglas Adams
#80. Sometimes I get such paranoia that I refresh and wait and wait in the same page until I get answer???
Why??
I'm not a crazy,...
Deyth Banger
#81. For paranoia about 'what other people think' : remember that only some hate, a very few love - and almost all just don't care.
Alain De Botton
#82. It was a trap after all," Alric said. He turned to Royce. "My apologies for doubting your sound paranoia.
Michael J. Sullivan
#83. Blessed with the Beta Male imagination, he spent much of his life squinting into the future so he might spot ways in which the world was conspiring to kill him ...
Christopher Moore
#84. The acid test is that all paranoids and fundamentalists lack a sense of humor, for humor is a chaos flux and flexibility, of ambiguity and multi-dimensionality, and that kind of erotic liveliness is precisely what the fundamentalist is trying to eliminate in holding rigidly to doctrine.
William Irwin Thompson
#85. Some people think this is paranoia, but it isn't. Paranoids only think everyone is out to get them. Wizards know it.
Terry Pratchett
#87. That's called terror. Its confusion and a little paranoia and a nice big dose of panic.
Jonathan Mayberry
#88. You know, I'm not even sure how we ended up living together."
"I am," Jake said, turning back to the lake. "Sex. It's a powerful force, my boy, and women use it."
"Is that why you gave them up?" Will asked, sympathetically. "Did paranoia drive you to celibacy?
Jennifer Crusie
#89. I have these thoughts. I think "What if the show doesn't sell well? What if it's a half-empty room?" These are the paranoia thoughts that go through my head on a day-by-day basis.
Ladyhawke
#90. It's impossible to write about the Kennedy assassination and its aftermath without taking note of twenty-five years of paranoia which has collected around that event.
Don DeLillo
#91. There was an air of vague and unsettling paranoia, an undercurrent of rumors, snatched fragments of conversation anticipating future revolution.
Patti Smith
#92. Maybe it was paranoia on my part, but paranoia had kept me alive for a long time. We were good buddies.
Linsey Hall
#93. Hadn't somebody said that perfect paranoia and perfect awareness were the same thing?
Stephen King
#94. The enemy was close. Despite my fear, I was somehow having fun. Being chased and killed by villains was a thrilling vision. My paranoia really excited me.
It stimulated me. In short, it was pleasant.
If it was pleasant, it also must be fun.
Tatsuhiko Takimoto
#95. With addiction, a client's fears can be ripened into some very pleasing fruit: Irritability, suspiciousness, isolation, paranoia, and finally on to that grand banana - the fear of Fear itself.
Geoffrey Wood
#96. The '50s and the '70s are sort of similar in that they're both times of major paranoia in America.
Noah Hawley
#97. Paranoia: the gift of the survivor and the burden of the overtired, stressed, and terrified ...
Patricia Briggs
#98. Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#99. If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
Tacitus
#100. Did you consider anything like the Infected?' Simon had asked.
'Not quite. But some of our other contingency plans might help us out with this particular mission.
A. Ashley Straker
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