Fear of vikings build castles.

When someone is stalking you because they think you are stalking them, it makes you wonder who really is the true stalker?

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.

About his madmen Mr. Lecky was no more certain. He knew less than the little to be learned of the causes or even of the results of madness. Yet for practical purposes one can imagine...

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

It’s all society is, the repressed sex drives of men, the objectification of women, their paranoia, the posturing, the macho stances, the beauty standard, it’s all just one charade masking a never ending hard on.

Batman: What have I told you about trusting dangerous and obsessive criminal geniuses?Wonder Woman: To be fair, you tend to warn everyone about everything.Batman: Point.

Jack missed the normality of merely reading the paper.

There’s always someone bigger and badder who can knock you off your perch—even if you’re me. Never forget it and you don’t have to worry about corruption. You’ll be too afraid with watching your own...

Even now it comes as a shock if by chance I notice in the street a face resembling someone I know however slightly, and I am at once seized by a shivering violent enough to...

It is not the homeless, mentally ill or extremely cunning people that we have to be afraid of. When someone loses everything that meant something to them is when people should get very afraid. A...

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...

It was one of those days when I was thinking too much, too fast. Only it was more like the thoughts had a mind of their own and going all by themselves at a hundred...

I swear that I will never cause trouble for anybody, as long as I live!! So please! Nobody cause any trouble for me, either!!

Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then.

The pain of the narcissist is that, to him, everything is really a threat. What doesn’t surrender in reverence is blasphemous to a high opinion of oneself – the burden of self-importance. The narcissist reconstructs...

What is society but an individual? […] The ocean is not society; it is individuals. This was how I managed to gain a modicum of freedom from my terror at the illusion of the ocean...

A warrior doesn’t worry. He or she evaluates the situation, investigates the source, calculates the risks and benefits, formulates a plan then puts it into action.

Welcome my new paranoia, if you are not my reality, so where the hell is the fucking reality!?!?! To be or not to be?! this is the paranoia of my sweet dreams. So you are...

Mubarak was so paranoid that anyone he perceived as competent became a threat to him.

Paranoid means you are aware of 10% of the problem

If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.

My parents are going to kill me!””That seems rather harsh…

[…] I was afraid to board a streetcar because of the conductor; I was afraid to enter the Kabuki Theater for fear of the usherettes standing along the sides of the red-carpeted staircase at the...

Feelings are something you have; not something you are.

Their love story: It’s when logic fell in love with paranoia and paranoia learned to love logic; logic grounded paranoia and paranoia turned up the heat because logic never knew where that heat would come...

He regarded Huginn as only slightly more dangerous than most pets, in that he understood why people had pets but harbored the paranoia they would one day eat their owners. True, it kept Eliot from...

Paranoia is at most annoying!

You state here that you believe your daughter, Amy, is no longer with you; that the girl living in your house – who looks and sounds exactly like Amy – is not in fact your...

Paranoia is transmissible from mind to mind, but it does not go by the route of reason. It can therefore change its rationalization while remaining essentially the same.

Il n’arrivait às à trouver exactement son aplomb. Comme lorsqu’on déplace un meuble très lourd et qu’on n’arrive plus ensuite à faire coïncider sa base avec ses marques laissées au sol. Ou comme lorsqu’on n’arrive...

And I was incapable of living all by myself in those lodgings where I didn’t know a soul. It terrified me to sit by myself quietly in my room. I felt frightened, as if I...

Bitter people are not interested in what you say, but what you hide.

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...

The Story of Prince Barkiarokh”)

[T]he relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios–the overwhelming and underlying desire for something truly terrible to happen so that you could have something really hot to talk about–was still...

He reached the ground floor and flung the door open, fleeing into the street. He glanced back and saw that she wasn’t following, so he slowed to a halt. His pulse raced. The entranceway was...

Poor things, she thought – do they have to spend all this energy just to surround me? It seemed pitiful that these automatons should be created and wasted, never knowing more than a minor fragment...

Complacency kills. Paranoia is the reason I’m still alive.

The only time I want someone’s opinion is when I ask for it. Reason why I don’t ask for anyone’s opinion nowadays is because they are too afraid, they always cover the truth with a...

Sometimes paranoids have enemies, and conspiracies are only laughable when they fail to materialize.

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

You’re mind is working at its best when you’re being paranoid.You explore every avenue and possibility of your situationat high speed with total clarity.

The military operation swiftly became one of disaster management and damage control, search and rescue.

Anyone could be anybody. (Eric)

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...

Grief denied will surface in borrowed clothes, the mad, sad clothes of paranoia, fear or loneliness

God is always trying to give blessings to us, but our minds are usually too full to receive them.

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,...

For a minute, the fantasy frightened her, but ultimately, this fear saved her from feeling alone.