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  • My parents are going to kill me!" "That seems rather harsh.

    Parent   Paranoia   Harsh  
  • The marriage of reason and nightmare which has dominated the 20th century has given birth to an ever more ambiguous world. Across the communications landscape move the specters of sinister technologies and the dreams that money can buy. Thermonuclear weapons systems and soft drink commercials coexist in an overlit realm ruled by advertising and pseudoevents, science and pornography. Over our lives preside the great twin leitmotifs of the 20th century-sex and paranoia.

    Dream   Sex   Moving  
  • I am learning that mature faith, which encompasses both simple faith and fidelity, works the opposite of paranoia. It reassembles all the events of life around trust in a loving God. When good things happen, I accept them as gifts from God, worthy of thanksgiving. When bad things happen, I do not take them as necessarily sent by God -- I see evidence in the Bible to the contrary -- and I find in them no reason to divorce God. Rather, I trust that God can use even those bad things for my benefit.

    Philip Yancey (2009). “Reaching for the Invisible God Study Guide”, p.28, Zondervan
  • There's a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something.

  • If there is something comforting - religious, if you want - about paranoia, there is still also anti-paranoia, where nothing is connected to anything, a condition not many of us can bear for long.

    Thomas Pynchon (2012). “Gravity's Rainbow”, p.338, Penguin
  • .. I get more of a dreamy thing from the audience - it's more of a thing that you go up into. You get into such a pitch sometimes that you go up into another thing. You don't forget about the audience, but you forget about all the paranoia, that thing where you're saying, 'Oh gosh, I'm on stage - what am I going to do now ?' - Then you go into this other thing, and it turns out to be like almost like a play in certain ways

    Music   Play   Way  
  • I'd like to see a really good kind of closeted 1950s vampire movies. The war is over, the Korean war is over, we're happy now, a little bit of Cold War paranoia ya know, and then mix it up a little bit. I just think there are so many avenues that you could do that.

    War   Thinking   Vampire  
    Source: www.ramascreen.com
  • Cat, you asked me before to find out if those dream -suppression pills had any side effects. I’ve checked with Pathology, and they said you might experience depression, mood swings, irritability, paranoia, and chronic fatigue. Have you noticed any of that?

    Dream   Cat   Swings  
  • Paranoia is a state of heightened awareness. Most people are persecuted beyond their wildest delusions.

  • Not me, paranoia's the garlic in life's kitchen, right, you can never have too much.

    Thomas Pynchon (2013). “Bleeding Edge: A Novel”, p.18, Penguin
  • 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.

  • Smart people understand that there is no such thing as paranoia. It is just another mask for ignorance.

    "Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F".
  • Perfect paranoia is perfect awareness.

    Stephen King (2011). “Danse Macabre”, p.322, Simon and Schuster
  • Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.

    Thomas Pynchon (2012). “The Crying of Lot 49”, p.85, Penguin
  • This is a mournful discovery. 1)Those who agree with you are insane 2)Those who do not agree with you are in power.

    Philip K. Dick (2011). “The VALIS Trilogy”, p.61, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • I told myself: 'I am surrounded by unknown things.' I imagined man without ears, suspecting the existence of sound as we suspect so many hidden mysteries, man noting acoustic phenomena whose nature and provenance he cannot determine. And I grew afraid of everything around me – afraid of the air, afraid of the night. From the moment we can know almost nothing, and from the moment that everything is limitless, what remains? Does emptiness actually not exist? What does exist in this apparent emptiness?

    Night   Men   Air  
  • 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.

    Real   Anxiety   World  
    Marianne Williamson (2009). “A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles”, p.23, Harper Collins
  • I have an advanced degree in procrastination and another one in paranoia.

  • Paranoid? Probably. But just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face.

    Mean   Faces   Demon  
    Jim Butcher (2000). “Storm Front: Book one of The Dresden Files”, p.22, Penguin Group
  • Your hatred is rooted in your fear, and your paranoia and insecurities, well they don't belong here.

  • Energy always flows either toward hope, community, love, generosity, mutual recognition, and spiritual aliveness or it flows toward despair, cynicism, fear that there is not enough, paranoia about the intentions of others, and a desire to control.

  • I don't agonize over decisions as much these days. The criteria of what's important to me is clear. The insecurity that you feel, and the paranoia that you feel, have been around for a long time - you know it's a liar because it's been lying to you all along - every time you start something new.

    Time   Liars   Lying  
  • These are the Seven Deadly Sins: Avarice, Envy, Pride, Gluttony, Lust, Anger, Sloth. These are the seven deadly sins: venality, paranoia, insecurity, excess, carnality, contempt, boredom.

    Pride   Envy   Boredom  
    Martin Amis (1981). “Other people: a mystery story”, Jonathan Cape
  • Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't somebody watching.

  • The real meaning of the word paranoia is--- a man or person who has the ability to link events that seemingly are not connected.

    Real   Men   Links  
  • I think you get mentally ill being homeless. Most of the bag ladies wind up mentally ill pretty quickly - what people would call paranoid - because they are in such danger. I don't know if it's really paranoia because they are in great danger. Terrible things happen to them, and they lose everything. How could they not become at the very least severely depressed?

    Thinking   Wind   People  
  • Anyone not paranoid in this world must be crazy. . . . Speaking of paranoia, it's true that I do not know exactly who my enemies are. But that of course is exactly why I'm paranoid.

    Crazy   Enemy   World  
    Edward Abbey (2006). “Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast”
  • There is never a right or wrong time to have kids; it happens for whatever reason, but you can have this paranoia: 'will I be able to do this, I'm not sure if I'm ready to have kids?'

    Kids   Able   Reason  
    "Interview: Danny Dyer and Tamer Hassan". Interview with Samantha Peliza, uk.askmen.com.
  • Success demands paranoia.

    Joseph Finder (2014). “Paranoia”, p.20, Head of Zeus
  • When I was in my early forties, I slept with a loaded gun under my bed. Id become severely depressed in my thirties, and for almost a decade I spiraled down into paranoia, rage, self-loathing, and thoughts of suicide.

    Suicide   Gun   Self  
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