Quotes About Paranoia And Fear

#1. A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves.

Dan Savage

#2. 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

#3. I learned how but I have a terrible paranoia and fear. I do not drive an automobile.

Nikki Cox

#4. My biggest fear is that I become useless or less useful by not being up to date - be it with technology, changing consumers, changing global situations. You continuously have to have a little level of paranoia that forces you to set the bar higher every day.

Paul Polman

#5. Fear and paranoia are similair things, he interrupted. Both of them just so happen to be in your head.

Alessia Dickson

#6. When you spend time worrying, you're simply using your imagination to create things you don't want.

Shannon L. Alder

#7. God, what would someone so afraid do with power so awful?

Apollo Blake

#8. Paranoia is transmissible from mind to mind, but it does not go by the route of reason. It can therefore change its rationalization while remaining essentially the same.

William Nicholls

#9. For a minute, the fantasy frightened her, but ultimately, this fear saved her from feeling alone.

Stephen Grosz

#10. A good leader shares information, even if they don't know the whole story. Without any information, people create their own, which causes fear and paranoia.

Simon Sinek

#11. We are always prepared to defend ourselves, because we all live with the fear and paranoia that other people don't like us.

Paulo Coelho

#12. I was diagnosed with paranoia for fear of never smoking weed again.

Eddie Bravo

#13. You can't write novels without a touch of paranoia. I'm paranoid as an act of good citizenship, concerned about what the powerful people are up to.

Kurt Vonnegut

#14. The anticipation of loss is much more frightening than the actual loss as anticipation leaves room for the imagination to create that which, in all likelihood, will never transpire.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#15. But when I first got cancer, after the initial shock and the fear and paranoia and crying and all that goes with cancer - that word means to most people ultimate death - I decided to see what I could do to take that negative and use it in a positive way.

Herbie Mann

#16. A baby is born into this world in a state of fear. Total paranoia and awareness. He sees the world with eyes not used yet. As he grows up, his parents lay all this stuff on him. They tell him, when they should be letting him tell them. Let the children lead you.

Charles Manson

#17. I swear that I will never cause trouble for anybody, as long as I live!! So please! Nobody cause any trouble for me, either!!

Minoru Furuya

#18. Never let your fear of the unknown and things being too difficult make your choices for you in life. One of the saddest lessons in life is finding out that your fear made the situation worse than what it was and a braver person stole the dream you gave up on.

Shannon L. Alder

#19. Grief denied will surface in borrowed clothes, the mad, sad clothes of paranoia, fear or loneliness

Johnny Rich

#20. We routinely leave our small children in day care among strangers. At the same time, in our guilt we evince paranoia about strangers and foster fear in children.

Thomas Harris

#21. When someone is stalking you because they think you are stalking them, it makes you wonder who really is the true stalker?

Shannon L. Alder

#22. Create delusion. Establish doubt. Feed paranoia.

John Katzenbach

#23. To the man who is afraid everything rustles.

Sophocles

#24. Paranoia, the first cousin of a bastard named fear

Eric Jerome Dickey

#25. And I was incapable of living all by myself in those lodgings where I didn't know a soul. It terrified me to sit by myself quietly in my room. I felt frightened, as if I might be set upon or struck by someone at any moment.

Osamu Dazai

#26. Paranoia is at most annoying!

Anthony Liccione

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. Even now it comes as a shock if by chance I notice in the street a face resembling someone I know however slightly, and I am at once seized by a shivering violent enough to make me dizzy.

Osamu Dazai

#35. Sadly, it seems that I have the proclivity to create plenty of devils, but most of the time I don't even go looking for angels.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#36. Monogamy doesn't work unless it rises up from the bones. Because it promises nothing but fear and tension when forced on you. It fills you up with despair where there might be joy. It shoves guilt and paranoia and self-loathing down your throat, if you don't truly want it.

Will Christopher Baer

#37. What is society but an individual? [ ... ] The ocean is not society; it is individuals. This was how I managed to gain a modicum of freedom from my terror at the illusion of the ocean called the world.

Osamu Dazai

#38. Was it still paranoia if all his fears were justified?

Margaret Peterson Haddix

#39. Your hatred is rooted in your fear, and your paranoia and insecurities, well they don't belong here.

Amy Ray

#40. She was so afraid of everything that she made it impossible to really enjoy anything at all.

Lemony Snicket

#41. 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

#42. I have a theory that you can tell what the head of a company is like by the people who work there. I knew a publishing house that was run on fear and paranoia, and I felt sorry for everyone who worked there. Needless to say, the person at the helm was not known for kindness, warmth, or grace.

Jane Green

#43. The more you fear losing your power the more rules you will make.
Goverments suffer paranoia, they don't want you to know the real truth

Kimberly Loskov

#44. Fear of vikings build castles.

Charles Manson

#45. There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.

Hunter S. Thompson