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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• 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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• paranoia is just a heightened sense of awareness

  John Lennon

  Awareness

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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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• Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts.

  William S. Burroughs

  Facts, Sometimes

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

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• Paranoia is knowing all the facts.

  Woody Allen

  Knowing, Facts

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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

  Patrick Carman

  Mean, Dresden Files, Paranoid

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• Create delusion. Establish doubt. Feed paranoia.

  John Katzenbach

  Doubt, Delusion

  John Katzenbach (2002). “The Analyst”

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• Paranoia is the delusion that your enemies are organized.

  Arthur D. Hlavaty

  Enemy, Delusion, Organized

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• After everything I've been through, the last thing I'm going to apologize for is my paranoia

  Richard Finney

  Lasts, Apologizing

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• Paranoia is a state of heightened awareness. Most people are persecuted beyond their wildest delusions.

  Claude Steiner

  People, Awareness, States

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

  Joanne Harris

  Procrastination, Degrees

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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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• 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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• A paranoiac, like a poet, is born, not made.

  Luis Bunuel

  Mind, Mental Illness, Poet

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

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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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• Candor disarms paranoia.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Candor

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