P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Paralytic
It happens. Will it go on? ----
My mind a rock,
No fingers to grip, no tongue,
My god the iron lung
That loves me, pumps
My two
Dust bags in and out,
Will not
Let me relapse
While the day outside glides by like ticker tape.
The night brings violets,
Tapestries of eyes,
Lights,
The soft anonymous
Talkers: 'You all right?'
The starched, inaccessible breast.
Dead egg, I lie
Whole
On a whole world I cannot touch,
At the white, tight
Drum of my sleeping couch
Photographs visit me ----
My wife, dead and flat, in 1920 furs,
Mouth full of pearls,
Two girls
As flat as she, who whisper 'We're your daughters.'
The still waters
Wrap my lips,
Eyes, nose and ears,
A clear
Cellophane I cannot crack.
On my bare back
I smile, a buddha, all
Wants, desire
Falling from me like rings
Hugging their lights.
The claw
Of the magnolia,
Drunk on its own scents,
Asks nothing of life.”
Source: Ariel
“Paralyze resistance with persistence.”
“Paralyzed Reality (The Sonnet)
Newspaper to smartphone,
rabbit r1 to apple vision pro,
social disconnection only
changes face, nothing more.
Nobody is busy enough
to need VR while walking.
People are meant to own tech,
Yet the opposite is happening.
Every tech has its place and purpose,
How many reminders are enough reminder!
First you buried your head in your phone,
Now you walk around as donkeys with blinker.
Companies are not to blame,
Real culprit is consumer idiocy.
In a world of unawareness,
VR and AR make paralyzed reality.”
Source: Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets
“Paramatma, die hohe Seele, ist mit Gott vereint, sie ist gottesbewusst, universal bewusst. Ihr eigenes Selbst umfasst alle. Ob es nun gute oder verschlagene Menschen sind, ob sie recht oder falsch gehen, sie sind deren eigenes Selbst; sie betrachtet all diese Personen als ihr Selbst. (S. 182)”
Source: Heilung aus der Tiefe der Seele: Mystik und geistige Heilung
“Parameters are the things you bounce off to create art.”
“Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell.”
“Paramount is the need to secure human rights. The form of rule should be such that the citizen does not have to fear the State, but gives it direction and confidently participates in its administration.”
“Paramount Pictures is a perfect partner for Electric Entertainment, with the most stable group of executives in Hollywood and unparalleled global promotion and distribution reach.”
“Paramparça olana kadar, padişah olamazsın.”
Source: Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn
“Paranoia can be a sign of a sanity in some circumstances, in some places and times.”
“Paranoia has a sharper taste if the danger is real.”
Source: Beach Music
“Paranoia imposes its own vision on the external world; it differs from other kinds of visionary experience in that the paranoid wants others to share his view—even insists on it. Paranoia is very like poetic creativity. This accounts for my fascination with certain people in whom this state of mind was evident: ‘characters’ met by chance, whose words and gestures would haunt me for years until, finally, in a poem I was able to dispel them.”
“Paranoia is a social disease-you get it from screwing other people.”
“Paranoia is a state of heightened awareness. Most people are persecuted beyond their wildest delusions.”
“Paranoia is a survival trait when you run in my circles. It gives you something to do in your spare time, coming up with solutions to ridiculous problems that aren't ever going to happen. Except when one of them does, at which point you feel way too vindicated.
- Harry Dresden, "Changes”
“Paranoia is a survival trait when you run in my circles. It gives you something to do in your spare time, coming up with solutions to ridiculous problems that aren't ever going to happen. Except when one of them does, at which point you feel way too vindicated. - Harry Dresden, Changes, Jim Butcher”
Source: The Dresden Files Collection 7-12
“Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.”
Source: In the belly of the beast: letters from prison
“Paranoia is at most annoying!”
“paranoia is just a heightened sense of awareness”
“Paranoia is just a heightened state of awareness. I didn't say it, but I repeat it often enough.”
Source: Rubber Babes: Further Misadventures of Rollo Hemphill
“Paranoia is just another mask for ignorance. The truth, when you finally chase it down is almost always far worse than your darkest visions and fears”
Source: Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F
“Paranoia is just having the right information.”
“Paranoia is knowing all the facts.”
“Paranoia is the delusion that your enemies are organized.”
“Paranoia is transmissible from mind to mind, but it does not go by the route of reason. It can therefore change its rationalization while remaining essentially the same.”
Source: Christian Antisemitism: A History of Hate: A History of Hate
“Paranoia (n)
A condition where a person always doubts others and themselves.
A condition where all compliments seem too fake to be a reality.
A condition where a person is unable to trust someone even after knowing them for years.
A condition where a person thinks self-sabotage is healthy.
A condition where a person just can’t turn off the grinding noises in their brain.
A condition where a person feels that someone is only nice to them because they need something in return.
A condition where a person can no longer differentiate between delusions and reality. A condition where a person’s own mind is their biggest enemy.
A condition where a person is ridden with irrational fears and ‘yellow wallpaper’ feels.
A condition where a person feels that when people are not talking to them they are either talking about them or against them. Always.”
Source: Red Sugar, No More
“Paranoia plays into all of us. Trust is a terrifying idea of not knowing who we can rely on.”
“Paranoia reduces anxiety and guilt by transferring to the other all the characteristics one does not want to recognize in oneself. It is maintained by selective perception and recall. We only see and acknowledge those negative aspects of the enemy that support the stereotype we have already created.”
“Paranoia represents an inherent aspect of the mind, driven by the dread of annihilation. This is why, in moments of intense fear, we instinctively oppose transitioning from life to death.”
Source: The Beggars of the Mercury Lights: We the Other People
“Paranoia seems more reasonable when you've got twelve stitches in your side.”
Source: The Midnight Mayor
“Paranoia, soaring paranoia. It's the people who are loyalest to the Village [the State] who are most susceptible. They begin to think everyone is betraying the cause but themselves.”
Source: The Prisoner
“Paranoia. The more you think of an imaginary problem, the more you feel as though it’s real –”
Source: Nightmarish Sacrifice
“Paranoia, why do you keep watching me?”
“Paranoia, the destroyer.”
“Paranoia," Sam muttered. "You're going slowly nuts, dude. Or maybe not so slowly, since you're talking to yourself.”
Source: Fear
“Paranoia: the gift of the survivor and the burden of the overtired, stressed, and terrified.”
“Paranoiac-critical activity makes the world of delirium pass onto the plane of reality.”
“Paranoid is what people who are trying to take advantage call you in an effort to get you to drop your guard.”
“Paranoid? Probably. But just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face.”
Source: Storm Front: Book one of The Dresden Files
“Paranoids are the only ones who notice things anymore.”
“Paranormal events are just edges of the infinite we 'happen' to encounter.”
“Paranormal fiction offers authors - and readers - the chance to answer the question, what if? All the different ways that question can be answered make for extremely entertaining reading.”
“Paranormal phenomena have a habit of going away whenever they are tested under rigorous conditions. This is why the $1,000,000 reward of James Randi, offered to anyone who can demonstrate a paranormal effect under proper scientific controls, is safe.”
“Paranormal suspense and romance together in one non-stop rollercoaster of passion and adventure. - Love Romance Passion”
Source: Seduced by the Wolf
“Paranormalists, however, insist that our minds are transmitters that, with special effort, can focus like lasers to communicate across great distances, and even make things happen. That may seem far-fetched, but it's also a definition of prayer.”
Source: The World Without Us
“Paraphrase, in the sense of summary, is as indispensable to the novel-critic as close analysis is to the critic of lyric poetry. The natural deduction is that novels are paraphrasable whereas poems are not. But this is a false deduction because close analysis is itself a disguised form of paraphrase.”
Source: Language of Fiction: Essays in Criticism and Verbal Analysis of the English Novel
“Paraphrased: Among the degrees of the universal Manifestation, each sentient creature typically experiences an illusory sense of autonomy. At the same time, with or without the creature's awareness, the creature subsists eternally as an "immutable prototype" in the divine Knowledge.”
“Paraphrased: The way of al-Junayd includes among other things abstaining constantly from resisting God Most High in whatever happens to one, whether good or bad. . . .”
“Paraphrased: When Chuang Tzu was about to die, his disciples began planning a splendid funeral. However some disciples expressed concern that given a particular arrangement, birds and kites would eat his remains. Chuang Tzu replied, "Well, above ground I shall be eaten by crows and kites, below it by ants and worms. What do you have against birds?”
“Paraphrasing Plato's Republic: "Only people who have allowed themselves to be reformed by reality have it in themselves to reform their polis for the better."”