Paranoid Quotes

A paranoid man is a man who knows a little about what's going on. (William S. Burroughs)
Even a paranoid can have enemies. View quote
Henry Kissinger
Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive. View quote
Andy Grove
I guess the line between being paranoid and being a rock star is smaller than one would expect. I love being a freak. It's great! View quote
Brian Molko
My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid, but in this day and age, I don't want something around my neck that's worth more than my head. View quote
Rita Rudner
What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And LA is the Mecca of it all; they're taking it to the hilt. View quote
Billie Joe Armstrong
You can never be comfortable with your success, you've got to be paranoid you're going to lose it. View quote
Louis V. Gerstner
Harry Dresden: Paranoid? Probably. But just because you're paranoid doesn't mean that there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face. View quote
Jim Butcher
The history of psychiatry rewrites itself so often that it almost resembles the self-serving chronicles of a totalitarian and slightly paranoid regime. View quote
J. G. Ballard
The seven dwarfs were each on different little trips. Happy was into grass and grass alone ... Happy, that's all he did. Sleepy was into reds. Grumpy, too much speed. Sneezy was a full blown coke freak. Doc was a connection. Dopey was into everything. Any old orifice will do for Dopey. He's always got his arm out and his leg up. And then, the one we always forget, because he was Bashful. Bashful didn't use drugs. He was paranoid on his own. Didn't need any help on that ladder. View quote
George Carlin
If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia. (Margaret Atwood)
The video of 'Paranoid Android' has been censored by MTV. They took all nipples out of the cartoon, but they had no problem with the scene in which a man cuts off his own arms and legs. View quote
Thom Yorke
The Academy is paranoid about its image. View quote
Roger Ebert
No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine. View quote
William Blum
Harry: No, I don't think you're paranoid. I think you're the opposite of paranoid. I think you walk around with the insane delusion that people like you. View quote
Woody Allen
I am not being obtuse. You are being paranoid. View quote
Iain Banks
Any such inklings were like a few scattered grains of truth dissolved in an ocean of nonsense, and were anyway generally inextricably bound up with patently paranoid ravings which served only to devalue the small amounts of sense and pertinence with which they were associated. View quote
Iain Banks
For the first time in American history, men in authority are talking about an 'emergency' without a foreseeable end,...Such men as these are crackpot realists: in the name of realism they have constructed a paranoid reality all their own. View quote
C. Wright Mills
Yes, I'm paranoid - but am I paranoid enough? View quote
David Foster Wallace
We were talking briefly about cocaine...yeah. Anything that makes you paranoid and impotent, give me more of that! View quote
Robin Williams
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you. (Kurt Cobain)
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. View quote
Richard Hofstadter
My own nature hovers between neurotic and paranoid. I've developed the habit of mentally listing things that make me optimistic about the future. I do it every day. View quote
Martha Beck
I am lazy, but for some reason, I am so paranoid that I end up working hard. View quote
Seth Rogen
People don't remember me. Really. It's not a paranoid thing; I just have this habit of slipping through memories. It doesn't bother me all that much, except I guess that's a lie; it does. For some reason, I test very high on forgettability. View quote
William Goldman