Paranoia Quotes

• 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

  Art, Creativity, Mind

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• Paranoia can be a sign of a sanity in some circumstances, in some places and times.

  Michael Helm

  Sanity, Circumstances, Place And Time

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• paranoia is just a heightened sense of awareness

  John Lennon

  Awareness

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• Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.

  Unknown

  Funny, Life, Halloween

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

  William S. Burroughs

  Philosophy, Littles, Psychedelic

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  Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Confidence, Dream, Mistake

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.206, Harvard University Press

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• Smart people understand that there is no such thing as paranoia. It is just another mask for ignorance.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Ignorance, Mask

  "Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F".

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• Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts.

  William S. Burroughs

  Facts, Sometimes

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Paranoia: the gift of the survivor and the burden of the overtired, stressed, and terrified.

  Patricia Briggs

  Stressed, Survivor, Burden

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• Paranoia is knowing all the facts.

  Woody Allen

  Knowing, Facts

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

  Philip K. Dick

  Reality, Links, Strange

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “A Scanner Darkly”, p.99, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• That’s what the human brain is there for—to turn the chaos of given experience into a set of manageable symbols. Sometimes the symbols correspond fairly closely to some of the aspects of the external reality behind our experience; then you have science and common sense. Sometimes, on the contrary, the symbols have almost no connection with external reality; then you have paranoia and delirium. More often there’s a mixture, part realistic and part fantastic; that’s religion.

  Aldous Huxley

  Reality, Common Sense, Brain

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• 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

  Doctors, Anxiety, Normal

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• Paranoia imposes its own vision on the external world; it differs from other kinds of visionary experience in that the paranoid wants others to share his view—even insists on it. Paranoia is very like poetic creativity. This accounts for my fascination with certain people in whom this state of mind was evident: ‘characters’ met by chance, whose words and gestures would haunt me for years until, finally, in a poem I was able to dispel them.

  Louis Simpson

  Creativity, Character, Views

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• Paranoia plays into all of us. Trust is a terrifying idea of not knowing who we can rely on.

  Eric Christian Olsen

  Play, Ideas, Knowing

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• One person's "paranoia" is another person's "engineering redundancy."

  Marcus J. Ranum

  Engineering, Redundancy, Persons

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• Create delusion. Establish doubt. Feed paranoia.

  John Katzenbach

  Doubt, Delusion

  John Katzenbach (2002). “The Analyst”

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• I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

  J. D. Salinger

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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• 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.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Thinking, Tests, Faults

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• Paranoia has a sharper taste if the danger is real.

  Pat Conroy

  Real, Taste, Danger

  Pat Conroy (1995). “Beach Music”, Nan A. Talese

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• Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't somebody watching.

  Patrick Carman

  Mean, Dresden Files, Paranoid

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• Paranoia is the delusion that your enemies are organized.

  Arthur D. Hlavaty

  Enemy, Delusion, Organized

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• 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

  Crazy, Enemy, World

  Edward Abbey (2006). “Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast”

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• 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

  Real, Anxiety, World

  Marianne Williamson (2009). “A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles”, p.23, Harper Collins

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• I told myself: 'I am surrounded by unknown things.' I imagined man without ears, suspecting the existence of sound as we suspect so many hidden mysteries, man noting acoustic phenomena whose nature and provenance he cannot determine. And I grew afraid of everything around me – afraid of the air, afraid of the night. From the moment we can know almost nothing, and from the moment that everything is limitless, what remains? Does emptiness actually not exist? What does exist in this apparent emptiness?

  Guy de Maupassant

  Night, Men, Air

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