Paranoid 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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  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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• The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.

  Sigmund Freud

  Mistaken

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• Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.

  Andy Grove

  Success, Fear, Business

  "Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth". Book by Robert E Litan and William Baumol, p. 228, 2007.

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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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• I'm shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I've done everything I can to avoid it.

  Johnny Depp

  Hate, Shy, Use

  "I do not know what is sexy about me, says Johnny Depp". Interview with Aakanksha Naval-Shetye, www.dnaindia.com. May 21, 2012.

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• I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.

  Susan Sontag

  People, Envy, Attention

  1992 In Time Out,19 Aug.

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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 they aren't out to get you.

  Woody Allen

  Mean

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• I was so paranoid that my friends wouldn't like me. I went to a very small school where the consequences of bullying were very real. You couldn't just push some nameless face in the hallway because everybody knew each other's families, so there wasn't the obligatory psychotic jackass that tortured everybody.

  Kristen Bell

  Bullying, Real, School

  "Kristen Bell Interview YOU AGAIN". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 21, 2010.

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• Even paranoid people have enemies.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  People, Enemy

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• It's amazing where the paranoid mind can take you.

  Bill Ayers

  Mind

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• A paranoid thinks that sinister forces are out to get him, not realizing that they are out to get everybody.

  Robert Breault

  Thinking, Realizing, Force

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

  Patrick Carman

  Mean, Paranoia, Dresden Files

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• Paranoid is what people who are trying to take advantage call you in an effort to get you to drop your guard.

  Matt Damon

  People, Effort, Trying

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• Only the paranoid survive.

  Andy Grove

  Quoted in Electronic News, 1 Apr. 1985

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• If for every error and every act of incompetence one can substitute an act of treason, many points of fascinating interpretation are open to the paranoid imagination.

  Richard Hofstadter

  Errors, Imagination, Incompetence

  Richard Hofstadter (2016). “The Paranoid Style in American Politics: An Essay: from The Paranoid Style in American Politics”, p.19, Vintage

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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 wonder if I'm being paranoid. I tell myself I'm not, and then ask myself how I can be so sure? I don't know the answer, so I go back to wondering if I am.

  Craig Stone

  Answers, Wonder, Knows

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• Funny, how just when you think life can’t possibly get any worse it suddenly does.

  Douglas Adams

  Thinking, Doe, Hitchhiking

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.69, Pan Macmillan

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• I was a child, and my mother was psychotic. She loved me, but I didn't really feel I had a mother. And when you live with somebody who is paranoid and thinks you're trying to kill them all the time, you tend to feel a little betrayed.

  Alan Alda

  Mother, Children, Thinking

  "The Givers: Alan Alda Plays With Fire! An Exclusive Interview". Interview with Marlo Thomas, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 10, 2012.

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• If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.

  Margaret Atwood

  United States, Canada, Mental Illness

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• I suppose there must be some way in which I'm compelled to show some side of myself - or of people - that's paranoid and fraught and beleaguered and downtrodden, just as Tom Cruise wants to show that he's terrifyingly upbeat and terrifyingly heroic all the time.

  Paul Giamatti

  People, Want, Way

  "Paul Giamatti: 'I'm clearly not Brad Pitt'" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2009.

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• Being slightly paranoid is like being slightly pregnant - it tends to get worse.

  Molly Ivins

  Pregnancy, Pregnant

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