A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. — William S. Burroughs
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
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. — J. D. Salinger
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you. — Unknown Author
If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia. — Margaret Atwood
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
Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust. In a closely beleaguered city every sentry is a potential traitor. — Graham Greene
The country makes me more paranoid, you know? I think the crazy people out there are little crazier. — Jean-Michel Basquiat
The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person. — Eric Hoffer
Psychedelic drugs cause paranoia, confusion, and total loss of reality in politicians that have never taken them. — Timothy Leary
No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine. — William Blum
If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise. — Tacitus
Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive. — William S. Burroughs
Candor disarms paranoia. — Allen Ginsberg
Perfect paranoia is perfect awareness. — Stephen King
I've always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position. — Pat Conroy
Paranoia is the delusion that your enemies are organized. — Arthur D. Hlavaty
Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then. — Philip K. Dick
There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment. — Hunter S. Thompson
Paranoia plays into all of us. Trust is a terrifying idea of not knowing who we can rely on. — Eric Christian Olsen
I'm a tad paranoid. I think the person in front of me is following me the long way round. — Dennis Miller
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You know what scares me? When you have to be nice to some paranoid schizophrenic, just because she lives in your head. — Steven Wright
I'm shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I've done everything I can to avoid it. — Johnny Depp
I got a new dog. He's a paranoid retriever. He brings back everything because he's not sure what I threw him. — Steven Wright
Herein lies a riddle: How can a people so gifted by God become so seduced by naked power, so greedy for money, so addicted to violence, so slavish before mediocre and treacherous leadership, so paranoid, deluded, lunatic? — Philip Berrigan
In the startup world, you have to be paranoid and delusional at the same time. — Balaji Srinivasan
The video of 'Paranoid Android' has been censored by MTV. They took all nipples out of the cartoon, but they had no problem with the scene in which a man cuts off his own arms and legs. — Thom Yorke
I guess the line between being paranoid and being a rock star is smaller than one would expect. — Brian Molko
The paranoid is never entirely mistaken. — Sigmund Freud
I was walking down the street the other day and these construction workers were working on the roof hammering away. One of them told me I was a paranoid lunatic... in morse code. — Emo Philips
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The more attention you pay an enemy, the stronger you make him. Be attentive, but don't be paranoiac. — Paulo Coelho
A paranoiac, like a poet, is born, not made. — Luis Bunuel
Paranoiac-critical activity makes the world of delirium pass onto the plane of reality. — Salvador Dali
Lovers, of course, are notoriously frantic epistemologists, second only to paranoiacs (and analysts) as readers of signs and wonders. — Adam Phillips
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
I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. — J.D. Salinger
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
I'm a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. — J.D. Salinger
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
Although the paranoiacs make the great leaders, it's the resenters who make their best instruments because the resenters, those men with cancer of the psyche, make the great assassins. — Richard Condon
Everybody looking at you crazy,
What you gon' do?
Lift up your head and keep moving,
Or let the paranoia haunt you? — Kendrick Lamar
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
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
I told the doctor I was overtired, anxiety-ridden, compulsively active, constantly depressed, with recurring fits of paranoia. Turns out I'm normal. — Jules Feiffer
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
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
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
I got this idea about being afraid to let go of something and being afraid of sinking into a state of almost anesthesia, where you have to trust other people. Just the paranoia of it all. And it seemed to suit the frenetic track. So I just wrote it out and, you know, said it. — Nick Rhodes
. . . 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
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
Pakistan is alarmed by the rising Indian influence in Afghanistan, and fears that an Afghanistan cleansed of the Taliban would be an Indian client state, thus sandwiching Pakistan between two hostile countries. The paranoia of Pakistan about India's supposed dark machinations should never be underestimated. — Salman Rushdie
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
A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves. — Dan Savage
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
"I know perfectly well that at this moment the whole universe is listening to us," Jean Giraudoux wrote in The Madwoman of Chaillot, "and that every word we say echoes to the remotest star."That poetic paranoia is a perfect description of what the Sun, as a gravitational lens, could do for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. — Frank Drake
This is a mournful discovery. 1)Those who agree with you are insane 2)Those who do not agree with you are in power. — Philip K. Dick
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
Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth. — Thomas Pynchon
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't somebody watching. — Patrick Carman
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
Not me, paranoia's the garlic in life's kitchen, right, you can never have too much. — Thomas Pynchon
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
Create delusion. Establish doubt. Feed paranoia. — John Katzenbach
Some people think this is paranoia, but it isn't. Paranoids only think everyone is out to get them. Wizards know it. — Terry Pratchett
Is my paranoia getting completely out of hand, or are you mongoloids really talking about me? — John Kennedy Toole
I always feel like an interloper when I do serious drama. It's my own paranoia. — Johnny Vegas
Drugs induce paranoia and psychosis in people who have never taken any. — Terence McKenna
Paranoia is a survival trait when you run in my circles. It gives you something to do in your spare time, coming up with solutions to ridiculous problems that aren't ever going to happen. Except when one of them does, at which point you feel way too vindicated. - Harry Dresden, Changes, Jim Butcher — Jim Butcher
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