214 Quotes About Paranoia

Grief denied will surface in borrowed clothes, the mad, sad clothes of paranoia, fear or loneliness

The Soviets were worried that the Americans would attack their "sparkling new Mir space station, ... in a space shuttle, throw out grappling hooks, forcibly board the peaceful habitat and claim it as captured territory. To the hard-core Soviet mind-set, the American government was an unstable combination of cowboys and gangsters, unpredictable and capable of any insane action. The cosmonauts would have to be armed against outrageous aggression.

Save for the fit of bizarre laughter at the end, the man seems so calm, sensible, rational. Duffy wishes he met more like him. A bit paranoid about this terrorism business, but frankly, he might be right. You never know who is around the bend to blow you up, destroy your symbols, set your embassy on fire, shit on your toilet seat, or send anthrax swimming into the subway air and into everyone's lungs.

We must content ourselves with the mystery, the absurdity, the contradictions, the hostility, but also the generosity that our environment offers us. It's not much, but it's always better than the deadly, defeatist certainty of the paranoid.

There was something unnerving about her surroundings. She was unsure, not knowing whether this was her paranoia kicking in, or a warning. How could you tell?

You’d worry less about what they thought if you knew how little they did.

She was kidnapped, held hostage in her own nightmare, being tortured by her own mind.

Sam forced the thoughts away because even though she had been certain the situation couldn’t get any worse, her mind wanted to make sure there was always a way it could.

More often than not, the thing we fear is less than half the size of the fear it creates.