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In this world only the paranoid survive.
My paranoia never ends, but I haven't been paranoid about being spied on my shadowy forces for some time now.
We are all sufferers from history, but the paranoid is a double sufferer, since he is afflicted not only by the real world, with the rest of us, but by his fantasies as well.
Caution is a spy's best friend; paranoia is his enemy.
Was it still paranoia if all his fears were justified?
Paranoid? Probably. But just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face.
Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean I'm wrong." "Let's
If you carry a gun, people will call you paranoid. That's ridiculous. If I have a gun, what in the hell do I have to be paranoid about?
Captain, the problem is not that I'm paranoid. The problem is that the universe keeps justifying my paranoia.
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.
If you're paranoid long enough, sooner or later you're gonna be right.
Paranoia is just a heightened state of awareness. I didn't say it, but I repeat it often enough.
Paranoia is the delusion that your enemies are organized.
Paranoia is a form of awareness.
Paranoia is a state of heightened awareness. Most people are persecuted beyond their wildest delusions.
Paranoia had crept into that part of my brain usually reserved for reason.
Being slightly paranoid is like being slightly pregnant - it tends to get worse.
The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.
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.
You should be more paranoid than you are. Your typical suburban mom worries all the time, but she worries about the wrong things.
Because she doesn't worry about me.
Paranoia is habitual. If you get slapped in the face every time you turn a corner, then you'll EXPECT to get slapped in the face every time you turn a corner.
A paranoid man is a man with all the facts.
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse.
I suspect people of having good intentions.
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.
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
Complacency kills. Paranoia is the reason I'm still alive.
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.
Paranoia has a sharper taste if the danger is real.
It's amazing where the paranoid mind can take you.
The secret to a happy, successful life of paranoia is to keep careful track of your persecutors.
A paranoid thinks that sinister forces are out to get him, not realizing that they are out to get everybody.
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.
But paranoids might have real enemies and obsessives might obsess about really important stuff.
I'm not paranoid, but I am cautious. I don't drink tea with strangers, I don't fly Aeroflot and I avoid certain countries with close ties to Russia.
Paranoids are the only ones who notice things anymore.
Some people think I'm paranoid, but I like to say I'm realistically prepared for when the shit hits the fan
The real meaning of the word paranoia is
a man or person who has the ability to link events that seemingly are not connected.
This is a do-it-yourself test for paranoia: you know you've got it when you can't think of anything that's your fault.
To have paranoia, it's nothing bad it's like your antivurs system on your computer, it makes as much secure as possible.
Paranoia seems more reasonable when you've got twelve stitches in your side.
Only the Paranoid Survive...
It's the doubt that is really a major ingredient of the paranoid thriller.
Paranoid art, unlike paranoid persons, also distrusts itself. And so, paranoid art is the ultimate opposite, the urgent opposite, of complacent art.
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.
I am very suspicious of people.
Proverbs for Paranoids, 4: You hide, they seek.
Total paranoia is just total awareness.
The worm of paranoia begins to eat into even the hardest adversary.
Let me say this: I'm paranoid of the government. They've lost my trust. They've lied to me so many times that I don't know what to believe from them anymore.
I knew that kind of thinking was paranoid, but after the wacky crap that had happened to me over the last couple of months, these days I'd be suspicious of a jolly white-bearded man in a red suit carrying a bag over his shoulder.(Violet Parker)
Perfect paranoia is perfect awareness.
Oh, God, if I'm anything by a clinical name, I'm a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I think people are plotting to make me happy.
You know you're writing a good thriller when you make yourself paranoid.
Apprehension is natural, but it must not be concluded that it is a threat. Certainly not.
Paranoia
because why should the conspiracy theorists get to have all the fun?
The idea of the paranoid style as a force in politics would have little contemporary relevance or historical value if it were applied only to men with profoundly disturbed minds. It is the use of paranoid modes of expression by more or less normal people that makes the phenomenon significant.
Worry is like a squatter: it sneaks in and tries to stay without paying rent! Serve it eviction papers! HS/el
I've always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position.
Paranoia's the assassin's bedmate,
I'm a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
I've always been paranoid about the police, because even when I'm not doing anything illegal I'm thinking about doing something illegal.
I may have a slightly paranoid nature, a fear of losing control of my life.
In my paranoid world every storekeeper thinks I'm stealing, every man thinks I'm a prostitute or a lesbian, every woman thinks I'm a lesbian or arrogant, and every child and animal sees the real me and it is evil.
We've all got to worry some-but we can't let it conquer us. Instead, let it alarm us.
I'm a tad paranoid. I think the person in front of me is following me the long way round.
Worry is forethought gone to seed.
Worry worships the words of the enemy
Wary, as if surrounded by strangers.
grandiose paranoid schizophrenia.
Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then.
I felt possessive, protective, and paranoid.
A paranoiac, my friend, is a person who has gone crazy in the most intelligent, well-informed way, the world being what it is. The paranoiac believes that great secret conspiracies are afoot to destroy him.
Imagine a thousand more such daily intrusions in your life, every hour and minute of every day, and you can grasp the source of this paranoia, this anger that could consume me at any moment if I lost control.
Sometimes paranoids have enemies, and conspiracies are only laughable when they fail to materialize.
Such extreme and perpetual cautiousness of word and manner, such a dread of giving a distinct idea about any body, is apt to suggest suspicions of there being something to conceal.
Paranoia was one of the few habits that was worth keeping.
paranoid, you said so in your notes. He knew the KGB and MVD were watching him in Minsk, and he's going to be afraid that the FBI and the
Even the delusionally paranoid have enemies.
Paranoia is just a kind of awareness, and awareness is just another form of love.
People who don't know me well enough might say I'm delusional and paranoid, but they're just out to get me.
I was having a mildly paranoid day, mostly due to the fact that the mad priest lady from over the river had taken to nailing weasels to my front door again.
Fate likes to tease paranoids.'
I always do get a little bit paranoid when I get a lot of attention. But I get used to it.
I couldn't tell if I was perspicacious or paranoid.
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.
Paranoia is a social disease-you get it from screwing other people.
And I know I'm paranoid and neurotic, I've made a career out of it.
My sense of insecurity keeps me alert, always ready to correct my errors.
Guarded curiosity.
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.
Paranoia plays into all of us. Trust is a terrifying idea of not knowing who we can rely on.
Don't worry about it. If I'm wrong, Security is monitoring me every second."
"That just means they'll know who to charge with your murder," said Forrice.
"Are you always this optimistic?"
"I have to be an optimist," explained Forrice. "I won't have anyone to tease if they kill you.
I'm not suspicious, I'm just careful.
I'm always suspicious of people, especially being in a weird realm of people kind of knowing me ... and not knowing what people's motives might be.
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.
All through my life I've had this strange unaccountable feeling that something was going on in the world, something big, even sinister, and no one would tell me what it was."
"No," said the old man, "that's just perfectly normal paranoia. Everyone in the Universe has that.
All gamblers are paranoid, though they call it superstition.
Paranoia, the first cousin of a bastard named fear
Everybody looking at you crazy,
What you gon' do?
Lift up your head and keep moving,
Or let the paranoia haunt you?
I'm a worry-wart, I'd say.