Jonathan Swift Quotes

Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.

Once you start worrying, it's hard to stop.

The secret to a happy, successful life of paranoia is to keep careful track of your persecutors.

Your mind can do wonders, so scary movies are not the healthiest for me because it does freak me out.

Paranoia can be such a powerful hallucinogen if you're not careful - but it's great to kind of recognize it as that.

After I binged last night -or was it tonight - I was convinced yet again that there were people coming to get me. It was more than just shadows and voices, more than just fantasies....it was real, and I was scared to my core.My bones were shaking...m heart was pounding...I thought I was going to explode. I'm glad I have you to talk to, to write this down. I tried to keep it all together, but then I gave in to the manes and became one with my insanity.

Worrying is using your imagination to create something you don't want.

All the powers of imagination combine in hypochondria.

When you spend all your time worrying that the devil is right behind you, eventually you start seeing him whether he's there or not.

I remember desperately trying to convince my wife that what I was believing was real - that I was being followed, that I was involved in some type of mind-control experiment. I couldn't understand why she couldn't believe me.

Paranoia has a sharper taste if the danger is real.

I sometimes joke, Paula, even paranoid people have enemies.

I worry too much.

I have an advanced degree in procrastination and another one in paranoia.

I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.

Your mind always does worse things than people can show in a movie.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Being slightly paranoid is like being slightly pregnant - it tends to get worse.

I don't think anyone's found a way of eliminating thoughts of danger and loss. It's rather that, when they're unrealistic, you become an acrobat at marshaling evidence against them.

The best monsters are our anxieties given form. They make sense on the level of a dream - or a nightmare.

A paranoiac like a poet, is born, not made.

Let me be accurate in everything, for though you and I have seen some strange things together, you may at the first think that I, Van Helsing, am mad. That the many horrors and the so long strain on nerves has at the last turn my brain.

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

I don't want to think about how many people have thought or still think that I'm crazy.

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