Top 100 Quotes About Paranoia
#1. Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.
Jack Henry Abbott
#2. All that mattered was that Boyd was there. He was there for Sin, and when Sin opened his eyes to look at Boyd once more, Sin ignored all the self-doubt and paranoia. Because at that moment he somehow knew that Boyd always would be.
Santino Hassell
#3. One person's "paranoia" is another person's "engineering redundancy."
Marcus J. Ranum
#4. The worst thing about getting cured from paranoia is seeing how many people actually hate you
Danny Hogan
#5. 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
#6. Paranoia has a sharper taste if the danger is real.
Pat Conroy
#7. Cat, you asked me before to find out if those dream -suppression pills had any side effects. I've checked with Pathology, and they said you might experience depression, mood swings, irritability, paranoia, and chronic fatigue. Have you noticed any of that?
Jeaniene Frost
#8. It aroused my paranoia (which is always there in ready supply, since it is preferable to poor powers of anticipation).
Norman Mailer
#10. 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.
#11. Lessened theory of mind processing has also been linked to paranoia. After all, if one does not accurately model the mental state of another, one may treat it as hostile.
Daniel Nettle
#12. When the universe presented unexpected gifts to the undeserving, how else were they to react, except with sheer paranoia?
Matthew S. Williams
#13. Paranoia is acceptable in the new friendship paradigm. Worrying that your best employees or customers might leave is ok, as long as you put in place an active strategy to offset any possibility of that scenario.
Kevin Kelly
#14. For there either was some Tristero beyond the appearance of the legacy America, or there was just America, and if there was just America then it seemed the only way she could continue, and manage to be at all relevant to it, was as an alien, unfurrowed, assumed full circle into some paranoia.
Thomas Pynchon
#15. It does not matter how sternly you tell yourself that the crippling paranoia of the small hours of the night is due solely to body chemistry. You still feel absolutely miserable.
Victoria Clayton
#16. With girls house bristles with suspicion and frigidity; how much is paranoia transference? The damnable thing is that they can sense insecurity and meaness like animals smell blood.
Sylvia Plath
#17. 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
#18. Mathematicians tend to prefer a worst-case analysis, a kind of paranoia that is especially understandable if you live in Israel!
Noga Alon
#19. When one is experiencing failure, it is hard to resist the comfort of paranoia.
Thomas M. Disch
#20. Paranoia had crept into that part of my brain usually reserved for reason.
Megan Shepherd
#21. 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
#22. I like to stay cozy with my paranoia, not pass her around to my friends and family.
Jim Butcher
#23. 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
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then.
Philip K. Dick
#29. 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
#30. Psychedelic drugs cause paranoia, confusion, and total loss of reality in politicians that have never taken them.
Timothy Leary
#31. Paranoia plays into all of us. Trust is a terrifying idea of not knowing who we can rely on.
Eric Christian Olsen
#32. 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
#33. I always feel like an interloper when I do serious drama. It's my own paranoia.
Johnny Vegas
#34. Princess Rose should indeed be a TV movie, assuming something doesn't go wrong. I don't know how good a movie it will be, because the way movie folk think is different from the way writers think, and I distrust what isn't done my way. This is what I call a healthy paranoia.
Piers Anthony
#35. My paranoia wasn't always right, but just to be on the safe side, I never went to sleep with a clown in the room.
Mark Henwick
#36. I was diagnosed with paranoia for fear of never smoking weed again.
Eddie Bravo
#37. A watched pot never boils ... but it does develop paranoia
Josh Stern
#38. 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
#39. 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
#40. Sometimes we get way too fixated on how powerful sin is and how weak we are. We worry that if we relax for a second, we'll mess up royally and ruin everything. Ironically, our paranoia only serves to make us more conscious of our sinfulness.
Judah Smith
#41. 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
#42. You stole my paranoia," she said. "I was going to say, 'Don't go.' But you're going to no matter what I say, aren't you?
Rachel Caine
#43. There is a fine line between paranoia and sensibly caring for our already overburdened bodies.
Shirley Corder
#44. 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
#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. There's a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something.
Billy Joel
#47. Caution is a spy's best friend; paranoia is his enemy.
Jack Barsky
#48. I have a paranoia that 'Ablutions' is the best thing I'll ever do.
Patrick DeWitt
#49. 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
#51. The habit of misery had twisted these people, driving them to this paranoia. What had been diligence turned to desperation.
Duong Thu Huong
#52. I believe in the value of paranoia. Business success contains the seeds of its own destruction. The more successful you are, the more people want a chunk of your business and then another chunk and then another until there is nothing left.
Andy Grove
#53. 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
#54. Is my paranoia getting completely out of hand, or are you mongoloids really talking about me?
John Kennedy Toole
#55. 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
#56. I thought Trent should get over his pixy paranoia and admit he had an eerie attraction to them, like every other pure-blood elf I'd met. So he liked pixies. I liked double-crunch ice cream, but you didn't see me avoiding it in the grocery store.
Kim Harrison
#57. (...) At that time I put down the paranoia. I should have trusted my instincts (...) [Hannah Wilde]
Stephen Lloyd Jones
#58. They will leave you alone with your thoughts, planting subtle hints and suggestions over social networking to encourage your paranoia.
Peace
#59. Terrorism is not just about indiscriminate violence. As its name suggests, it is about instilling paranoia
Dana Priest
#60. Fear and paranoia are similair things, he interrupted. Both of them just so happen to be in your head.
Alessia Dickson
#61. Paranoia reduces anxiety and guilt by transferring to the other all the characteristics one does not want to recognize in oneself. It is maintained by selective perception and recall. We only see and acknowledge those negative aspects of the enemy that support the stereotype we have already created.
Sam Keen
#62. As long as anger, paranoia and misinformation drive our political debate, there are unhinged souls among us who will feel justified in turning to violent remedies for imagined threats.
David Horsey
#63. 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
#65. 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
#66. African Americans have always known that a little bit of paranoia was healthy for us.
Cynthia McKinney
#69. Paranoia, he said, was fundamentally egocentric, and every conspiracy theory served in some way to aggrandize the believer.
But he was also fond of saying, at other times, that even paranoid schizophrenics have enemies.
William Gibson
#70. I think the O.J. Simpson case conjured all the paranoia, the racial anxiety, but also the racial fatigue that America has endured over the last half century.
Michael Eric Dyson
#72. Everybody looking at you crazy,
What you gon' do?
Lift up your head and keep moving,
Or let the paranoia haunt you?
Kendrick Lamar
#73. We laughed. Ha, ha, we went. Ha, ha, ha. I'm not laughing now. Never has a joke filled me with such nausea and paranoia and insecurity and self-pity and dread and doubt.
Nick Hornby
#74. Every time I leave the house or we go anywhere, there is a paranoia. We always have to watch for specific cars and specific signs that we're being photographed.
Megan Fox
#75. Paranoia is just a kind of awareness, and awareness is just another form of love.
Charles Manson
#76. 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
#78. Grief denied will surface in borrowed clothes, the mad, sad clothes of paranoia, fear or loneliness
Johnny Rich
#79. 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
#80. 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
#82. Paranoia is just a heightened sense of awareness
John Lennon
#83. There is no literature and art without paranoia. Probably there would be even civilization. Paranoia is the world. It is the attempt to make sense of what has not.
Thomas Pynchon
#84. 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
#85. You can only live in the world you ken. The rest is just wishful thinking or paranoia.
Irvine Welsh
#86. I think everybody knows they have to be vigilant with their children. I don't have anything profound to say on that subject. We all know that we have to watch the children. The question is when does it become absolute paranoia?
Jeanne Phillips
#87. 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
#88. Pol Pot carried out through the years enormous purges against his own followers because of his paranoia.
Sydney Schanberg
#89. The real meaning of the word paranoia is
a man or person who has the ability to link events that seemingly are not connected.
John Coleman
#90. He regarded Huginn as only slightly more dangerous than most pets, in that he understood why people had pets but harbored the paranoia they would one day eat their owners. True, it kept Eliot from even having a pet larger than his fist, but it also kept him from being kibble.
Thomm Quackenbush
#91. 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
#92. The novelist ... must live in paranoia and seek to be one with the world; he must be terrified of experience and hungry for it; he must think himself nothing and believe he is superior to all.
Norman Mailer
#93. Schizoaffective disorder is a big mental mash-up of a disease. It combines just about every disorder, from depression, delusions, and paranoia to mania, schizophrenia and hallucinations. My mother bounced between all of these regularly while raising me alone in our Hollywood home.
Shawn Amos
#94. Anyone with the right mix of parental paranoia and entrepreneurial moxie can make a fortune by selling parents the equipment we think will keep us one step ahead of our kids.
Nancy Gibbs
#95. We wouldn't steal, which was paranoia- we would take, which was force.
Darin Bradley
#96. I have an advanced degree in procrastination and another one in paranoia.
Joanne Harris
#97. Happy, you really are a first-class gloomy bugger," JC said affectionately. "You could gloom for the Olympics, and still take a Bronze in existential paranoia."
Everyone has to be good at something," said Happy smiling in spite of himself.
Simon R. Green
#98. My paranoia never ends, but I haven't been paranoid about being spied on my shadowy forces for some time now.
Jon Ronson
#99. Paranoia was one of the few habits that was worth keeping.
Genevieve Cogman
#100. 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
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