Paranoia - Quotes from Science Fiction

A lot of quotations carefully collected from a very big amount of books and divided by categories.

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Big Brother is watching you.

- George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)

Watch the skies, everywhere! Keep looking. Keep watching the skies!

- Charles Lederer, The Thing (from AnotherWorld) (film, 1951)

There are times when I think we're all figments of a paranoid's dream.

- Fritz Leiber, ''X Marks the Pedwalk'' (1963)

The paranoid seemed rational. The formal pattern of logical reasoning appeared undisturbed. Underneath, however, the paranoid suffered from the greatest mental disfigurement possible for a human being. He was incapable of empathy, unable to imagine himself in another person's role. Hence for him others did not actually exist - except as objects in motion that did or did not affect his well-being.

- Philip K. Dick, Clans of the Alphane Moon (1964)

The paranoid experienced love fully, both as something given to him by others and as a feeling on his part toward them. But there was a slight catch to this. The paranoid experienced it as a variety of hate.

- Philip K. Dick, Clans of the Alphane Moon (1964)

Paranoia loses its meaning on the Moon. You are being threatened.

- John Brunner, Stand on Zanzibar (1968)

I am suddenly catapulted into a paranoid world where the walls not only have ears, but probably eyes, and long, claw-tipped fingers.

- Samuel R. Delany, ''Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones'' (1969)

At a certain level in my line of work, paranoia's just an occupational disease.

- Samuel R. Delany, ''Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones'' (1969)

To the paranoid, nothing is a surprise; everything happens exactly as he expected, and sometimes even more so. It all fits into his system. For us, though, there can be no system; maybe all systems - that is, any theoretical, verbal, symbolic, semantic, etc. formulation that attempts to act as an allencompassing, all-explaining hypothesis of what the universe is about - are manifestations of paranoia.We should be content with the mysterious, the meaningless, the contradictory, the hostile, and most of all the unexplainably warm and giving.

- Philip K. Dick, ''The Android and the Human'' (1972)

Being paranoid doesn't mean we're not being followed.

- Peter Hyams and Stirling Silliphant, Telefon (film, 1977)

Arthur: All through my life I've had this strange unaccountable feeling that something was going on in the world, something big, even sinister, and no one would tell me what it was. Slartibartfast: No, that's just perfectly normal paranoia. Everyone in the Universe has that.

- Douglas Adams, ''Fit the Fourth,'' episode of The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy (radio series, 1978)

Paranoia is the number-one killer of fourteen-year-old girls.

- ConnieWillis, ''A Letter from the Clearys'' (1982)

The cultivation of a certain tame paranoia was something Case took for granted. The trick lay in not letting it get out of control.

- William Gibson, Neuromancer (1984)

Paranoia is the only rational approach to a conspiracy world.

- Robert A. Heinlein, Job: A Comedy of Justice (1984)

[The Grand Sphere] was, he often thought, a paranoid's paradise; somebody really was plotting against him all the time.

- William JonWatkins, The Centrifugal Rickshaw Dancer (1985)

Have you ever considered the relationship of clinical paranoia to the phenomenon of religious conversion?

- William Gibson, Mona Lisa Overdrive (1988)

You may think you're paranoid, but are you paranoid enough?

- Pat Cadigan, ''Fool to Believe'' (1990)