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.

Did you consider anything like the Infected?’ Simon had asked.’Not quite. But some of our other contingency plans might help us out with this particular mission.

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

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...

I always feel like an interloper when I do serious drama. It’s my own paranoia.

People that have been consistently hurt by others in life will only see the one time you hurt them and be blinded to all the good your heart has to offer. They look no further...

My paranoia wasn’t always right, but just to be on the safe side, I never went to sleep with a clown in the room.

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.

These illustrations suggest four general maxims[…]. The first is: remember that your motives are not always as altruistic as they seem to yourself. The second is: don’t over-estimate your own merits. The third is: don’t...

On the TV he found cartoons and movies, music videos and game shows, repeat broadcasts and reruns, but there was nothing current, and no news. Many channels were just blank, or displayed brightly coloured test...

Paranoia is just having the right information.

More often than not, if a person is wearing a smile, there is a victim attached somewhere.

I know a secret,and secrets breed paranoia.

polite” because they have low self esteem or hidden agendas. Sadly, they impolitely confuse the hell out of everyone, send mixed signals, which then makes people question their sanity and motives.