Paranoid is an adjective used to describe someone who has the mental disorder paranoia, which is characterized by delusions and feelings of extreme distrust, suspicion, and being targeted by others. Inspirational paranoid quotes will encourage you to think a little deeper than you usually would and broaden your perspective.
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Famous Paranoid Quotes
The idea of the paranoid style as a force in politics would have little contemporary relevance or historical value if it were applied only to men with profoundly disturbed minds. It is the use of paranoid modes of expression by more or less normal people that makes the phenomenon significant. – Richard Hofstadter
Paranoia is just another word for ignorance. – Hunter S. Thompson
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
Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you. – Unknown
Paranoia reduces anxiety and guilt by transferring to the other all the characteristics one does not want to recognize in oneself. It is maintained by selective perception and recall. We only see and acknowledge those negative aspects of the enemy that support the stereotype we have already created. – Sam Keen
The worm of paranoia begins to eat into even the hardest adversary. – David Ignatius
Paranoia plays into all of us. Trust is a terrifying idea of not knowing who we can rely on. – Eric Christian Olsen
Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive. – Andy Grove
I’m shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I’ve done everything I can to avoid it. – Johnny Depp
Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you. – Kurt Cobain
Paranoia is just a heightened sense of awareness. – John Lennon
The paranoid is never entirely mistaken. – Sigmund Freud
A paranoid thinks that sinister forces are out to get him, not realizing that they are out to get everybody. – Robert Breault
Paranoia is the delusion that your enemies are organized. – Arthur D. Hlavaty
A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on. – William S. Burroughs
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them. – Susan Sontag
Paranoia is just another word for longevity. – Laurell K. Hamilton
Paranoia is reality seen on a finer scale. – Philo Gant
Don’t be afraid of losing a little power in daily associations. People who seek power and knowledge aren’t misers. They aren’t afraid. That is paranoid. – Frederick Lenz
Paranoia was always a potential side effect. – Kimberly Derting
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. – J. D. Salinger
It’s amazing where the paranoid mind can take you. – Bill Ayers
Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean there isn’t somebody watching. – Patrick Carman
A paranoid is someone who has all the facts. – William S. Burroughs
Even paranoid people have enemies. – Henry A. Kissinger
In this world only the paranoid survive. – Dean Koontz
Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts. – William S. Burroughs
If you’re paranoid long enough, sooner or later you’re gonna be right. – Kinky Friedman
Paranoid is what people who are trying to take advantage call you in an effort to get you to drop your guard. – Matt Damon
Only the paranoid survive. – Andy Grove
There is no such thing as paranoia. No. Not in the 21st century. Paranoia is just another word for ignorance. – Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
Being slightly paranoid is like being slightly pregnant – it tends to get worse. – Molly Ivins
We need to tell the difference between being paranoid and being careful. – Parry Aftab
Paranoia has a sharper taste if the danger is real. – Pat Conroy
Some people think this is paranoia, but it isn’t. Paranoids only think everyone is out to get them. Wizards know it. – Terry Pratchett
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
There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment. – Hunter S. Thompson
If you act out of a paranoid fear of something happening, you will always make that thing happen. – John Green
The secret to a happy, successful life of paranoia is to keep careful track of your persecutors. – Tyrone Hayes
If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia. – Margaret Atwood
Funny, how just when you think life can’t possibly get any worse it suddenly does. – Douglas Adams
People that have trust issues only need to look in the mirror. There they will meet the one person that will betray them the most. – Shannon L. Alder
Don’t be a little paranoid; worry about everything, or let it all go. – James Alan Gardner
Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t out to get you. – Woody Allen
Even a paranoid clock is being followed twice a day. – Dan Wells
Life,” said Marvin dolefully, “loathe it or ignore it, you can’t like it. – Douglas Adams
There is no literature and art without paranoia. Probably there would be even civilization. Paranoia is the world. It is the attempt to make sense of what has not. – Thomas Pynchon
Experiences might teach us to be cautious, but never to be paranoid. Paranoia is a limiter of destiny – Mr Imbuya
Paranoia. The more you think of an imaginary problem, the more you feel as though it’s real — – Simona Panova
Paranoid means you are aware of 10% of the problem. – Oran Kangas
Life! Don’t talk to me about life! – Douglas Adams
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
Paranoia’s the garlic in life’s kitchen, right: you can never have too much. – Thomas Pynchon
Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then. – Philip K. Dick
The suspicious mind conjures its own demons. – Hanshiro Tsugomu
Maybe the life I think I’m living is a paranoid delusion…Sanity is a valuable possession; I hoard it the way people once hoarded money. I save it, so I will have enough, when the time comes. – Margaret Atwood
Total paranoia is just total awareness. – Charles Manson
