John Diamond Quotes

Among the Internet's many gains for humanity, decreasing paranoia has not been one of them. Anything from that lump under your armpit to what's lurking in the sea - just type it into a search engine and watch your nerves explode.

Life is for the living. I was a little scared before surgery 'cause of the release you sign that says there's always a very small percent chance that you'll die during the operation.

More people worry themselves to death than bleed to death.

Most of those evils we poor mortals know From doctors and imagination flow.

Let me tell you something about hypochondria: It's a pernicious, undermining little demon. It won't kill you, but it will sap the color from your life so that in the loveliest moments, the moments of grace, you are hit with that whisper in your ear that takes it all away. I'm sick, I'm dying - I just don't know it yet.

The cancer I don't have is everywhere now.

A hypochondriac is one who has a pill for everything except what ails him.

I couldn't tell if I was perspicacious or paranoid.

No one could make a choice without feeling afraid.

There's a lot of people scared of me, and I can't blame them. They call me crazy so much I think I'm starting to believe them.

Suspicion follows close on mistrust.

The bad times I can handle. It's the good times that drive me crazy. When is the other shoe going going to drop?

She was the sort of person for whom fear was the natural response to that beyond explanation.

The darkness always teemed with unexplained sound - and yet he sometimes shook with fear lest the noises he heard subside and allow him to hear certain other fainter noises which he suspected were lurking behind them.

Sure,” she said, and hugged the laptop bag closer. “What could go wrong?” Michael’s eyes flashed to meet hers in the rearview mirror. Besides everything, I mean,” she said.

I had the feeling that some horrible image was just beyond the field of vision, moving, as I turned my head, so that I never quite saw it.

Fate likes to tease paranoids.'

Isn't it fascinating how long a few minutes seem when you are completely alone with not a familiar face in sight?

We learned not to meet anymore, We don't raise our eyes to one another, But we ourselves won't guarantee What could happen to us in an hour.

Oh, we can populate the dark with horrors, even we who think ourselves informed and sure, believing nothing we cannot measure or weigh. I know beyond all doubt that the dark things crowding in on me either did not exist or were not dangerous to me, and still I was afraid.

I think hypochondria always plays a part in the healthcare landscape.

Risk is not a dirty word.

They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy.

One is given strength to bear what happens to one, but not the 100 and 1 different things that might happen.

Fear was stronger than the calculation of probabilities.