214 Quotes About Paranoia

When you lose your ego, you win. It really is that simple.

Paranoia is transmissible from mind to mind, but it does not go by the route of reason. It can therefore change its rationalization while remaining essentially the same.

Fear of vikings build castles.

It is not the homeless, mentally ill or extremely cunning people that we have to be afraid of. When someone loses everything that meant something to them is when people should get very afraid. A person that has nothing to lose is the scariest person on earth.

They are all paranoid." Apparently, this voice does not see itself in the "all" of dementia.

[T]he relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios--the overwhelming and underlying desire for something truly terrible to happen so that you could have something really hot to talk about--was still startling. We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. That, you could conclude mordantly, is the real soundtrack of our time: the amplification of the self-evident toward the creation of paralyzing, preëmptive paranoia.

La oss derfor lide uten håp om en eneste varig glede i dette livet siden vi, mine brødre, allerede er i helvete.

If all you have seen is the best of me,I'm scared you won't like the rest of me.I'm scared you'll love me only ten questions later.Or worse, walk away disgusted after a thousand greater.

Googling yourself is an act rooted in either narcissism or paranoia, or both, and it seems weird because it is weird.