Top 140 Paranoid Quotes

I’m constantly paranoid that I’ll be unemployed for the rest of my life… and have to go back folding shirts at the Gap, which you know… you gotta do what you gotta do.

I knew something was wrong; I was constantly tired, and I’d developed numbness on my left side. I’d also become paranoid that my boyfriend was cheating on me. I thought I was having a nervous breakdown. One psychiatrist told me I was bipolar.

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.

If you start becoming withdrawn and looking over your shoulder, being careful about what you say, that’s being paranoid. This is an open, accessible team. That’s been my trademark for years.

I’m terrified of bugs and I travel with sprays, lotions, potions; the lot. I have to check the room before I go to sleep and if I come across a bug and fail to remove it I have to sleep in a separate room as I’m paranoid that I’ll be taken advantage of as I sleep.

I’m always thinking as an outsider, and I’m always mindful of whether a company can be impactful on a global basis. Frankly, I’m paranoid about anyone anywhere who could be a competitive threat.

Methamphetamine is a hideous drug. Meth makes a person become paranoid, violent, and aggressive – making them a serious threat to society and law enforcement. And maybe more importantly, meth users are a threat to their own children and families.

I feel like a crazy person all the time, and I feel like people are watching me, and I feel paranoid.

To keep the record straight, it wasn’t always John and Yoko. We’ve all accused one another of various business things; we tend to be pretty paranoid by now, as you can imagine. There’s a lot of money involved.

I had braces; I was lucky, ’cause I had some snaggle teeth. I always try and keep my retainer on me ’cause I’m paranoid about my teeth. It was run over by a car, so half of it’s missing, but it still works.

And I know I’m paranoid and neurotic, I’ve made a career out of it.

He was a psychotic. He was a borderline psychotic. He was a terrific, sensational actor, with a magical screen presence, you couldn’t keep your eyes off him, but he was paranoid. He was sure everybody was out to get him.

Like most dictators, Col Gaddafi detests the metropolis. His vision of Libya is a kind of Bedouin romantic medievalism, suspicious of universities, theatres, galleries and cafes, and so monitors the cities’ inhabitants with paranoid suspicion.

Being skint, drunk, paranoid – no, I don’t wish that for myself.

There is a paranoid streak in American life. Radio talk show hosts tend to foment that paranoid streak in American life.

I’ve always been fascinated by the human body, but you can become quite morbid and paranoid if you think too much.

I feel that Julian Assange came to be both paranoid and self-regarding in ways that ultimately undermined his own mission. And so, the transparency radical became a secret-keeper instead of a secret-leaker. And that, I think, is a big problem.

Dictators fall when they’re overconfident; they stay in power when they’re paranoid.

I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

As a black man, sometimes you can’t tell if what you’re seeing has underlying bigotry, or it’s a normal conversation and you’re being paranoid. That dynamic in itself is unsettling. I admit sometimes I see race and racism when its not there.

Governments sometimes turn paranoid. And they fear things. And sometimes the thing they fear the most is the populace.

Fact check: The examples of failed socialism that critics use are not socialist democracies but authoritarian states led by corrupt, ruthless, and paranoid dictators.

I’m really ultra-affected by things, I feel things deeper, and I cry at the drop of a hat, and offended and sensitive and I’m almost paranoid very easily, and that’s who I am.

I’m paranoid.

I’m a paranoid person. I really am.

I have this dying desire to be on top. I’m paranoid about it. It’s almost a sickness.

It’s always good, when it comes to immigration, to always be paranoid. You can never be too paranoid.

I’m really ultra-affected by things, I feel things deeper, and I cry at the drop of a hat, and offended and sensitive and I’m almost paranoid very easily, and that’s who I am.

The country makes me more paranoid, you know? I think the crazy people out there are little crazier.

Only the paranoid survive.

Of course I don’t think I have it made by any means. I’m too insecure, obsessive and paranoid for that.

I’m an athlete and I’m black, and a lot of black athletes go broke. I do not want to become a statistic, so maybe I overcompensate. But I’m paranoid. Oprah told me a long time ago, ‘You sign every check. Never let anyone sign any checks.’

I am lazy, but for some reason, I am so paranoid that I end up working hard.

I became paranoid for a long time: I thought that people were out to harm me.

I’ve had paranoid panic attacks.

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.

I’m paranoid of people hating on me.

You do get a bit paranoid that you’re becoming a sort of narcissist, an artistic solipsist when you’re doing stand-up.

My mom was paranoid about my safety.

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.

You can never be comfortable with your success, you’ve got to be paranoid you’re going to lose it.

You’ve got so many guys coming up and putting in work, and everybody wants to be in my position, so I gotta be paranoid and think that if I’m not producing, if I’m not going out there and winning fights and winning impressively, I’m gonna be replaced.

I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

I’m shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I’ve done everything I can to avoid it.

I’m paranoid about mosquitoes.

I still have difficult days when I lose hours to anxiety, feeling my throat swell and my mind race with paranoid thoughts. But – thanks in part to ongoing therapy – they’re happening less and less.

I’m a bad interview because I want to always feel like I’m being totally honest, but at the same time, I’m absolutely paranoid. That combination results in a lot of spaces.

You have to treat every day as a new challenge, and you have to remain paranoid, as they say.

I think the most successful are the most paranoid. The first thing people do when they buy a mansion is they build the biggest wall you could possibly build around it. What happens is, now you become a target. If I go into the hood, I’m at a disadvantage. They could carry guns. I can’t. They can hit me in the face. I can’t.

I don’t sleep well. I’m a very nervous – by my nature – anxious, almost paranoid person and reporter.

I’m paranoid about shopping. I get irritable. I find it tedious and taxing. People say shopping is retail therapy, but I need therapy after shopping.

Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.

Actual gay people can make many others feel uncomfortable and paranoid because they don’t know and can’t articulate what makes a person gay, and they worry that maybe they themselves are gay.

A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.

My dad’s cooking was magic in the kitchen. But eventually over the years, his personality changed and his ability to remember recipes failed. He became paranoid and thought people were stealing from him, when often he was just misplacing things.

If I compared myself to my kids, they know everything, and they’re like small little hackers. I feel also that my identity can be stolen; I’m very paranoid about it compared to other people in the younger generation.

I don’t know, maybe I’m overly paranoid that they’re going to be spoiled, but I want to keep them going as kids for as long as I can. I want to keep them innocent and free.

It used to be that I was always paranoid or a loser or something so there’s usually something that you seem to associate yourself with at one time or another.

The difference between being a victim and a survivor is often a low level of situational awareness. You can’t be a super-spy, watchful and paranoid every day. But I am more watchful than the average American.

I’m sometimes a little bit paranoid.

I was a child, and my mother was psychotic. She loved me, but I didn’t really feel I had a mother. And when you live with somebody who is paranoid and thinks you’re trying to kill them all the time, you tend to feel a little betrayed.

There are two worldviews in thriller writing: the paranoid view, like Chuck Logan’s, that everything is inside a large clockwork. I like those books; they’re intricate and thought out, but my view is that everything is chaotic and stupid. Chaos reigns, and civilized people do what they can to hold it back.