paranoia

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
16341a1	If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.	proverbs paranoia questions wit	Thomas Pynchon
f8a8d2e	Paranoid? Probably. But just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face.	paranoid paranoia	Jim Butcher
4dbe230	Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.	correcting criticism inspirational correction contradiction opinions paranoia	Ralph Waldo Emerson
c708b93	This is a mournful discovery. 1)Those who agree with you are insane 2)Those who do not agree with you are in power.	paranoia	Philip K. Dick
f58c689	"My parents are going to kill me!" "That seems rather harsh..."	humor parents paranoia	Garth Nix
32b6e42	Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.	paranoia	William S. Burroughs
f93d416	"Who's they?" He wanted to know. "Who, specifically, do you think is trying to murder you?" "Every one of them," Yossarian told him. "Every one of whom?" "Every one of whom do you think?" "I haven't any idea." "Then how do you know they aren't?" "Because..." Clevinger sputtered, and turned speechless with frustration. Clevinger really thought he was right, but Yossarian had proof, because strangers he didn't know shot at him with cannons every time he flew up into the air to drop bombs on them, and it wasn't funny at all."	murder paranoia	Joseph Heller
1e50e8e	Some people think this is paranoia, but it isn't. Paranoids only think everyone is out to get them. Wizards know it.	paranoia	Terry Pratchett
b58563c	I like to stay cozy with my paranoia, not pass her around to my friends and family.	paranoia	Jim Butcher
6ffe818	Not me, paranoia's the garlic in life's kitchen, right, you can never have too much.	pynchon paranoia	Thomas Pynchon
32371df	"In the mid 1980's I was asked by an american legal institution known as the Christic Legal Institute to compile a comic book that would detail the murky history of the C.I.A., from the end of the second world war, to the present day. Covering such things as the heroin smuggling during the Vietnam war, the cocaine smuggling during the war in Central America, the Kennedy assasination and other highlights. What I learned during the frankly horrifying research that I had to slog through in order to accomplish this, was that yes, there is a conspiracy, in fact there are a great number of conspiracies that are all tripping each other up. And all of those conspiracies are run by paranoid fantasists, and ham fisted clowns. If you are on a list targeted by the C.I.A., you really have nothing to worry about. If however you have a name similar to someone on a list targeted by the C.I.A., then you are dead? The main thing that I learned about conspiracy theory, is that conspiracy theorists believe in a conspiracy because that is more comforting. The truth of the world is that it is actually chaotic. The truth is that it is not The Iluminati, or The Jewish Banking Conspiracy, or the Gray Alien Theory. The truth is far more frightening.	confirmation-bias conspiracy conspiracy-theories conspiracy-thoeorists illuminati males-18-35 mindscape-of-alan-moore new-world-order pitfalls-of-bad-thinking the-truth-is paranoia cia	Alan Moore
2b50ed9	"And I realize the unbearable anguish of insanity: how uninformed people can be thinking insane people are "happy," O God, in fact it was Irwin Garden once warned me not to think the madhouses are full of "happy nuts." (p. 200)"	unhappiness paranoia insanity	Jack Kerouac
37a4c56	Egnaro is a secret known to everyone but yourself. It is a country or a city to which you have never been; it is an unknown language. At the same time it is like being cuckolded, or plotted against. It is part of the universe of events which will never wholly reveal itself to you: a conspiracy the barest outline of which, once visible, will gall you forever.	paranoia	M. John Harrison
e4d5535	Paranoia, he said, was fundamentally egocentric, and every conspiracy theory served in some way to aggrandize the believer. But he was also fond of saying, at other times, that even paranoid schizophrenics have enemies.	paranoia	William Gibson
26d19bf	"I hold the biscuits in front of his face and he stands up. "What do I have to do?" he says. "Nothing," I say. "They're for you." "Are they poisoned?" he says. "No," I say. "Eat one," he says. So I do. "Probably the others are poisoned," he says. "Eat a fraction of each." I eat a corner off each biscuit. He looks at the reminders suspiciously, then sniffs them. "I'm not sure it's worth it," he says. "How I wish you'd never come. Perhaps you've left the poison off of just those corners." I begin to realize I'll doubt whatever information he gives me. "Lick the entire biscuit," he says. "Then give them to me." So I lick each biscuit. "Both sides," he says. I lick both sides of each biscuit. I give him the wet biscuits and he cracks them open and sniffs them. Then he puts them in his pocket. "What do you want?" he says. "Now that you've failed to poison me to death."	doubt humor poisoning paranoia	George Saunders
2bd7cd4	Germans grew reluctant to stay in communal ski lodges, fearing they might talk in their sleep. They postponed surgeries because of the lip-loosening effects of anesthetic. Dreams reflected the ambient anxiety. One German dreamed that an SA man came to his home and opened the door to his oven, which then repeated every negative remark the household had made against the government.	fear nazis paranoia tension germany	Erik Larson
bfc7ea6	"What you've got to understand, son," says the doctor, "is it's all the fault of the alien space bats." --	paranoia	Cory Doctorow
859e937	Please don't continually say I'm paranoid. Why? It makes me paranoid.	paranoia mental-health	Philip K. Dick
9eef0ee	Oh, God, if I'm anything by a clinical name, I'm a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I think people are plotting to make me happy.	happy happiness paranoia	J.D. Salinger
48c43ce	Blessed with the Beta Male imagination, he spent much of his life squinting into the future so he might spot ways in which the world was conspiring to kill him...	imagination paranoia	Christopher Moore
6e668e6	fqdtu klWa yqyn , m `d lyqyn b'nWh ywjd dy'man wr Zhrk shkhSun yrydu khd`ak	ارتياب خداع يقين deception paranoia	Umberto Eco
9b7ec06	Was it still paranoia if all his fears were justified?	paranoia	Margaret Peterson Haddix
651406c	C'est la grande faiblesse des hommes de projeter ce qu'ils ont refoule en eux - sur les autres.	parano refoulé projection paranoia	Jean Anouilh
0c852d6	For a certain kind of temperament, defeat is never defeat by reality, but always defeat by other people, often acting together as members of a class, tribe, conspiracy or clan.	politics reality zero-sum-game paranoia	Roger Scruton

If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.

Thomas Pynchon

f8a8d2e

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

paranoid paranoia

Jim Butcher

4dbe230

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

correcting criticism inspirational correction contradiction opinions paranoia

Ralph Waldo Emerson

c708b93

This is a mournful discovery. 1)Those who agree with you are insane 2)Those who do not agree with you are in power.

paranoia

Philip K. Dick

f58c689

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

humor parents paranoia

Garth Nix

32b6e42

Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.

paranoia

William S. Burroughs

f93d416

"Who's they?" He wanted to know. "Who, specifically, do you think is trying to murder you?" "Every one of them," Yossarian told him. "Every one of whom?" "Every one of whom do you think?" "I haven't any idea." "Then how do you know they aren't?" "Because..." Clevinger sputtered, and turned speechless with frustration. Clevinger really thought he was right, but Yossarian had proof, because strangers he didn't know shot at him with cannons every time he flew up into the air to drop bombs on them, and it wasn't funny at all."

murder paranoia

Joseph Heller

1e50e8e

Some people think this is paranoia, but it isn't. Paranoids only think everyone is out to get them. Wizards know it.

paranoia

Terry Pratchett

b58563c

I like to stay cozy with my paranoia, not pass her around to my friends and family.

paranoia

Jim Butcher

6ffe818

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

pynchon paranoia

Thomas Pynchon

32371df

"In the mid 1980's I was asked by an american legal institution known as the Christic Legal Institute to compile a comic book that would detail the murky history of the C.I.A., from the end of the second world war, to the present day. Covering such things as the heroin smuggling during the Vietnam war, the cocaine smuggling during the war in Central America, the Kennedy assasination and other highlights. What I learned during the frankly horrifying research that I had to slog through in order to accomplish this, was that yes, there is a conspiracy, in fact there are a great number of conspiracies that are all tripping each other up. And all of those conspiracies are run by paranoid fantasists, and ham fisted clowns. If you are on a list targeted by the C.I.A., you really have nothing to worry about. If however you have a name similar to someone on a list targeted by the C.I.A., then you are dead? The main thing that I learned about conspiracy theory, is that conspiracy theorists believe in a conspiracy because that is more comforting. The truth of the world is that it is actually chaotic. The truth is that it is not The Iluminati, or The Jewish Banking Conspiracy, or the Gray Alien Theory. The truth is far more frightening.

confirmation-bias conspiracy conspiracy-theories conspiracy-thoeorists illuminati males-18-35 mindscape-of-alan-moore new-world-order pitfalls-of-bad-thinking the-truth-is paranoia cia

Alan Moore

2b50ed9

"And I realize the unbearable anguish of insanity: how uninformed people can be thinking insane people are "happy," O God, in fact it was Irwin Garden once warned me not to think the madhouses are full of "happy nuts." (p. 200)"

unhappiness paranoia insanity

Jack Kerouac

37a4c56

Egnaro is a secret known to everyone but yourself. It is a country or a city to which you have never been; it is an unknown language. At the same time it is like being cuckolded, or plotted against. It is part of the universe of events which will never wholly reveal itself to you: a conspiracy the barest outline of which, once visible, will gall you forever.

paranoia

M. John Harrison

e4d5535

Paranoia, he said, was fundamentally egocentric, and every conspiracy theory served in some way to aggrandize the believer. But he was also fond of saying, at other times, that even paranoid schizophrenics have enemies.

paranoia

William Gibson

26d19bf

"I hold the biscuits in front of his face and he stands up. "What do I have to do?" he says. "Nothing," I say. "They're for you." "Are they poisoned?" he says. "No," I say. "Eat one," he says. So I do. "Probably the others are poisoned," he says. "Eat a fraction of each." I eat a corner off each biscuit. He looks at the reminders suspiciously, then sniffs them. "I'm not sure it's worth it," he says. "How I wish you'd never come. Perhaps you've left the poison off of just those corners." I begin to realize I'll doubt whatever information he gives me. "Lick the entire biscuit," he says. "Then give them to me." So I lick each biscuit. "Both sides," he says. I lick both sides of each biscuit. I give him the wet biscuits and he cracks them open and sniffs them. Then he puts them in his pocket. "What do you want?" he says. "Now that you've failed to poison me to death."

doubt humor poisoning paranoia

George Saunders

2bd7cd4

Germans grew reluctant to stay in communal ski lodges, fearing they might talk in their sleep. They postponed surgeries because of the lip-loosening effects of anesthetic. Dreams reflected the ambient anxiety. One German dreamed that an SA man came to his home and opened the door to his oven, which then repeated every negative remark the household had made against the government.

fear nazis paranoia tension germany

Erik Larson

bfc7ea6

"What you've got to understand, son," says the doctor, "is it's all the fault of the alien space bats." --

paranoia

Cory Doctorow

859e937

Please don't continually say I'm paranoid. Why? It makes me paranoid.

paranoia mental-health

Philip K. Dick

9eef0ee

Oh, God, if I'm anything by a clinical name, I'm a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I think people are plotting to make me happy.

happy happiness paranoia

J.D. Salinger

48c43ce

Blessed with the Beta Male imagination, he spent much of his life squinting into the future so he might spot ways in which the world was conspiring to kill him...

imagination paranoia

Christopher Moore

6e668e6

fqdtu klWa yqyn , m `d lyqyn b'nWh ywjd dy'man wr Zhrk shkhSun yrydu khd`ak

ارتياب خداع يقين deception paranoia

Umberto Eco

9b7ec06

Was it still paranoia if all his fears were justified?

paranoia

Margaret Peterson Haddix

651406c

C'est la grande faiblesse des hommes de projeter ce qu'ils ont refoule en eux - sur les autres.

parano refoulé projection paranoia

Jean Anouilh

0c852d6

For a certain kind of temperament, defeat is never defeat by reality, but always defeat by other people, often acting together as members of a class, tribe, conspiracy or clan.

politics reality zero-sum-game paranoia

Roger Scruton