Conventional Life Quotes:

I refuse to live a conventional life.

- Madonna Ciccone

source: Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

topic: Refuse, Conventional, Conventional Life

I lead a very conventional life.

- Joan Didion

topic: Conventional, Conventional Life

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

- Mark Twain

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Majority And Minority, Courage To Change

I've never really lived a conventional life, so I think it's quite foolish for me or anyone else to start thinking that I am going to start making conventional choices.

- Madonna Ciccone

source: "Madonna Misses "Certain Things" About Being Married". OK! Magazine, January 12, 2012.

topic: Thinking, Choices, Foolish, Conventional Life

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.

- Christopher Morley

source: Christopher Morley (2013). “The Haunted Bookshop”, p.294, Melville House

topic: Wisdom, Silly, Reading, Independent Thought, Conformist

Yes, I laugh at all mankind, and the imposition that they dare to practice when they talk of hearts. I laugh at human passions and human cares, vice and virtue, religion and impiety; they are all the result of petty localities, and artificial situation. One physical want, one severe and abrupt lesson from the colorless and shriveled lip of necessity, is worth all the logic of the empty wretches who have presumed to prate it, from Zeno down to Burgersdicius. It silences in a second all the feeble sophistry of conventional life, and ascetical passion.

- Charles Robert Maturin

topic: Passion, Heart, Practice, Sophistry, Colorless

Ordinary life bypassed me, but I also bypassed it. It couldn't have been any other way.Conventional life and conventional people are not for me.

- Edna O'Brien

source: Novelists, Poets and Playwrights (2002).

topic: People, Ordinary, Way, Conventional Life

Art pierces opaque subjectivity, the not seeing of conventional life, and discloses reality.

- Langdon Brown Gilkey

topic: Art, Reality, Opaque, Conventional Life

I have tried and failed to lead a conventional life. When I try to be like other people, I fall out of bed.

- Marian Engel

source: Marian Engel (1985). “The Tattooed Woman”, Markham, Ont. : Penguin Books Canada

topic: Fall, People, Trying, Conventional Life

All I wanted was a little piece of life, to be married, to have children.... I was trying my damnedest to lead a conventional life, for that was how I was brought up, and it was what my husband wanted of me. But one can't build little white picket fences to keep the nightmares out.

- Anne Sexton

topic: Children, Husband, White, Picket Fences, Conventional Life

It may sound terrible, but I often say that the military saved me from a conventional life in the United States and I've never really thanked them for it, because I haven't exactly been pro-military in my work.

- Robert Jay Lifton

topic: Military, May, Sound, Conventional Life