Quotes About Being Paranoid

#1. Maybe I was just being paranoid. But that's the thing about the game. If you weren't paranoid, you were dead already.

Allison Van Diepen

#2. Someone will say to me, Oh that's so Jewish to interrupt. I say to myself, okay, is that code for you hate Jews? Or am I just being paranoid?

Jill Soloway

#3. Guerrilla leaders win wars by being paranoid and ruthless. Once they take power, they are expected to abandon those qualities and embrace opposite ones: tolerance, compromise and humility. Almost none manages to do so.

Stephen Kinzer

#4. Every rep that you take off, somebody else gets another look. That's just how I am. It's not a matter of being paranoid, it's a matter of being confident and not taking anything for granted.

Derrick Brooks

#5. As a child actor, you experience a lot of depression and anxiety ... Yes, I went through depression, and it was not comfortable. Yes, I struggle with anxiety and being paranoid, trying to figure out who I am.

Keke Palmer

#6. Then his eyes continue to sweep, and my heart comes hammering back against my ribs. I'm just being paranoid. Julian fumbles with the

Lauren Oliver

#7. It is as though he has just recognized me. Then his eyes continue to sweep, and my heart comes hammering back to my ribs. I'm just being paranoid.

Lauren Oliver

#8. I am not being obtuse. You are being paranoid.

Iain Banks

#9. Pia. "Maybe I'm being paranoid."
"Paranoid is a lot better than stupid, sugar." Eva.

Thea Harrison

#10. I guess the line between being paranoid and being a rock star is smaller than one would expect.

Brian Molko

#11. Sometimes, being paranoid really does save your life.

Susan Ee

#12. California Marijuana farmers are worried that radiation from Japan could affect their crops. Or maybe for some strange reason they're just being paranoid.

Conan O'Brien

#13. You're mind is working at its best when you're being paranoid.
You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation
at high speed with total clarity.

Banksy

#14. She was doing that thing some people do when they act nice and chipper and interested, while just below the surface they're thinking really mean thoughts, and you can never call them on it because they'd just accuse you of being paranoid.

Cecily Von Ziegesar

#15. If you start becoming withdrawn and looking over your shoulder, being careful about what you say, that's being paranoid. This is an open, accessible team. That's been my trademark for years.

Art Modell

#16. The NRA made an ad saying that Obama is elitist because his kids have armed guards. Yeah, that crazy Obama thinking his kids need special protection. I love the NRA accusing anyone of being paranoid. It's like a septic tank saying, 'You need a mint.'

Bill Maher

#17. I wonder if I'm being paranoid. I tell myself I'm not, and then ask myself how I can be so sure? I don't know the answer, so I go back to wondering if I am.

Craig Stone

#18. I've been wearing my super gown because someone won't let me go get maternity clothes because they are being a paranoid, drama bear

Alanea Alder

#19. I consider myself to be an inverse paranoid. I always operate as if everything is part of a universal plot to enhance my well-being.

Jack Canfield

#20. Even a paranoid clock is being followed twice a day.

Dan Wells

#21. 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

#22. But Teia had a superpower that no one had counted on: she was completely paranoid. She had thought she was being followed a hundred times since she'd started working for the Order, so she'd figured out a thing or two. One, she was a paranoid mess. Two, she was pretty good at it.

Brent Weeks

#23. There's evil in the world, all right. Being aware of it makes you a realist, not a paranoid.

Dean Koontz

#24. Corvis smiled around a mouthful of venison, trying to catch the juices before they rolled down his chin. "I think you're being just a bit paranoid, Davro. Legends and superstition."
"You'll change your tune quickly enough when some banshee's sucking your soul out through your pupils.

Ari Marmell

#25. My paranoia never ends, but I haven't been paranoid about being spied on my shadowy forces for some time now.

Jon Ronson

#26. I'm a bad interview because I want to always feel like I'm being totally honest, but at the same time, I'm absolutely paranoid. That combination results in a lot of spaces.

Gale Harold

#27. I realised how paranoid and guarded and not trusting - walled-in - I had become. Not consciously so, but just this armour that I kind of have, protective armour. It's not for my friends or family, but for being.outside in the world, always on guard.

Jennifer Aniston

#28. Being a pop star is something I don't think I'm very good at. I'm worried it's making me too paranoid, because all of a sudden, life has become this constant assessment. When you put something out there and people get to hear it, then those people react to it, socially, culturally.

Laura Mvula

#29. The reason I do not wear a watch is because I am always on a watch. I just need to ask the person how long they have been watching me.
- the irony of paranoia

Reshma Valliappan

#30. When had I stopped being a person with Paranoid Schizophrenia, and become a Paranoid Schizophrenic; defined by my illness?

Michaela Haze

#31. 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

#32. Being slightly paranoid is like being slightly pregnant - it tends to get worse.

Molly Ivins

#33. Suddenly I've had enough of all this. I've had enough of being made to feel insecure and paranoid and wondering what's going on

Sophie Kinsella

#34. The difference between being a victim and a survivor is often a low level of situational awareness. You can't be a super-spy, watchful and paranoid every day. But I am more watchful than the average American.

Barry Eisler

#35. I've always been the opposite of a paranoid. I operate as if everyone is part of a plot to enhance my well-being.

Jack Canfield