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

  William S. Burroughs

  Philosophy, Littles, Psychedelic

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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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• paranoia is just a heightened sense of awareness

  John Lennon

  Awareness

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• Paranoia is knowing all the facts.

  Woody Allen

  Knowing, Facts

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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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Perfect paranoia is perfect awareness.

  Stephen King

  Perfect, Awareness

  Stephen King (2011). “Danse Macabre”, p.322, Simon and Schuster

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• Paranoia is the delusion that your enemies are organized.

  Arthur D. Hlavaty

  Enemy, Delusion, Organized

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• Paranoia is a social disease-you get it from screwing other people.

  Paul Brodeur

  People, Disease, Social

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• 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

  Real, Men, Links

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

  Terry Pratchett

  Thinking, People, Wizards

  "Sourcery". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1988.

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• 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

  Hate, Believe, Fate

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• Call it not paranoia, but caution.

  Laura Anne Gilman

  Caution

  Laura Anne Gilman (2009). “Flesh and Fire: Book One of The Vineart War”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm a tad paranoid. I think the person in front of me is following me the long way round.

  Dennis Miller

  Thinking, Long, Way

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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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• Success demands paranoia.

  Joseph Finder

  Demand

  Joseph Finder (2014). “Paranoia”, p.20, Head of Zeus

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

  Patrick Carman

  Mean, Dresden Files, Paranoid

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• I have an advanced degree in procrastination and another one in paranoia.

  Joanne Harris

  Procrastination, Degrees

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• I always feel like an interloper when I do serious drama. It's my own paranoia.

  Johnny Vegas

  Drama, Las Vegas, Serious

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