Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes

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

And I might add the confidence with which distracted persons do oftentimes, when they are awake, think, they see black fiends in places, where there is no black object in sight without them.

It's amazing where the paranoid mind can take you.

I know what paranoia is like. I know what it is like to worry about what people are saying about you and become obsessed with what people are saying about you.

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.

I think I've always been paranoid.

I am wired on some deep level to seek out something to be worried and obsess about.

Sometimes I see things, I think. Out of the corner of my eye, taunting me, and then it’s gone. And dreams. Such horrible dreams. What if something terrible happened to me? What if I am damaged?" The rain is a cool kiss on my sleeve as I link my arm with hers. "We’re all damaged somehow.

Paranoia is knowing all the facts.

Anyone not paranoid in this world must be crazy. . . . Speaking of paranoia, it's true that I do not know exactly who my enemies are. But that of course is exactly why I'm paranoid.

Paranoia has a sharper taste if the danger is real.

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

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

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

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

If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious.

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

What worries you, masters you.

Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.

The schizophrenic has no sense of humor. His world is a constantly daunting, unfriendly place.

I think people, unfortunately, do live in constant fear.

Paranoia is dangerous for individuals and for nations as it gives rise to irrational behavior.

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

I may have a slightly paranoid nature, a fear of losing control of my life.