Quotes about Paranoia

Sooner or later, each of us becomes (for a while) the kind of person who believes in the reptile people that control the earth. We're seeking our own little pocket of uniqueness.

For some time I lived in fear of receiving a letter signed 'S. Gollum'. That would have been more difficult to deal with.

We're hallucinating. And that's what this world is: a mass hallucination, where fear seems more real than love. Fear is an illusion. Our craziness, paranoia, anxiety and trauma are literally all imagined.

If you think that someone is out to steal everything you have, you're either paranoid or a member of the middle class.

The following morning, when I met for breakfast with the staff, we kept noisy music playing loudly on a tape recorder as a precaution against hidden microphones. It was a good thing we did: Later, we found five listening devices hidden in our rooms in the guesthouse. One staffer unscrewed a plate over the light switch in his room, discovered a bug, removed it, and took it home as a souvenir.

We spend our life building higher fences and stronger locks, when the gravest dangers are already inside

You have a morbid aversion to dying. You probably resent the fact that you're at war and might get your head blown off any second.

When I leave a recording session, there is usually a lot of paranoia or superstition on my part, like I'm afraid to hear what we've done.

A good leader shares information, even if they don't know the whole story. Without any information, people create their own, which causes fear and paranoia.