#paranoia

Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#having #just #paranoia #sometimes

I'm scared to death of being poor. It's like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always fat inside. I grew up poor and will always feel poor inside. It's my pet paranoia. ↗

— Cher

#being #death #fat #feel #girl

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. ↗

— Joseph Heller

#murder #paranoia #funny

I don't believe in fate or destiny. I believe in various degrees of hatred, paranoia, and abandonment. However much of that gets heaped upon you doesn't matter - it's only a matter of how much you can take and what it does to you. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#believe #degrees #destiny #does #fate

My own reaction from a distance is that Pol Pot's demise as the leader of the Khmer Rouge was inevitable, and that his own paranoia did him in as much as anything else. ↗

— Sydney Schanberg

#demise #did #distance #else #him

Imagine a thousand more such daily intrusions in your life, every hour and minute of every day, and you can grasp the source of this paranoia, this anger that could consume me at any moment if I lost control. ↗

— Jack Henry Abbott

#any #consume #control #could #daily

I guess I should say a little bit about my method - I really am a fence sitter. I *loathe* Science and am always keen to attack it in most situations, though not here, because I love Reason and I'm perfectly aware of the difference. I also know what a concept means like Rules of Evidence. I'm not sure that's a concept as widely circulated in these circles as it needs to be - in other words, how *do* you tell shit from shinola? That's very critical. I think reason can only take us a certain distance, and then we have to go with the divine imagination, but with all safety systems fully in operation, or the divine imagination will lead us into complete paranoia. ↗

— Terence McKenna

#paranoia #reason #rules-of-evidence #science #ufos

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

— Donald Gorman

#humor-inspirational #paranoia #parnoia-humor #humor

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

— Banksy

#clarity #mind #paranoia #thinking #art

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 than what they want to see. Unfortunately, most of them remain a victim throughout their life. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#hurts #paranoia #trust-issues #victims #anger