Quotes on Paranoia

Not Exactly True That skin hate is dead. There will never be color blindness in a culture of fear. But when you live afraid of your neighbor, the monster you should most walk in terror of thrives. It starts as a little thing, small enough to burrow into your pores, take up excruciating residence in the dark recesses of your brain. Its name is paranoia, and it spreads like an oil spill, there in the shadows, chokes your humanity. Threatens your soul.

If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.

If there is something comforting - religious, if you want - about paranoia, there is still also anti-paranoia, where nothing is connected to anything, a condition not many of us can bear for long.

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

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

Women want everything of a lover. And too often I would sink below the surface. So armies disappear under sand. And there was her fear of her husband, her belief in her honour, my old desire for self-sufficiency, my disappearances, her suspicions of me, my disbelief that she loved me. The paranoia and claustrophobia of hidden love.

Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then.

This is a mournful discovery. 1)Those who agree with you are insane 2)Those who do not agree with you are in power.

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

There is an element of paranoia in this inclination to view any serious attempt at a compromised peace as somehow directed against Israel.

We vainly fancy ourselves above the ugly informing and paranoia of the right-wing McCarthy era, but in the 21st century, the Left has fashioned a mirror image.

Perfect paranoia is perfect awareness.

Zombies are a great rhetorical prop to talk about people and paranoia, and they are a good vehicle for my misanthropy.

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.

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.

Not me, paranoia's the garlic in life's kitchen, right, you can never have too much.

These illustrations suggest four general maxims[...]. The first is: remember that your motives are not always as altruistic as they seem to yourself. The second is: don't over-estimate your own merits. The third is: don't expect others to take as much interest in you as you do yourself. And the fourth is: don't imagine that most people give enough thought to you to have any special desire to persecute you.

Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.

Some people think this is paranoia, but it isn't. Paranoids only think everyone is out to get them. Wizards know it.

Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.

A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.