Normal And Abnormal Quotes:

There was nothing abnormal about it when homosexuality was the norm.

- Marcel Proust

source: 1921A' la recherche du temps perdu,'Sodome et Gomorrhe'.

topic: Abnormal, Homosexuality, Normal And Abnormal

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

- Carl Jung

topic: Second Chance, Thoughtful, Half, Unhealthy Obsession, Normal And Abnormal

An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.

- Viktor E. Frankl

topic: Normal, Behavior, Reactions, Normal And Abnormal

Autism is a neurological disorder. It's not caused by bad parenting. It's caused by, you know, abnormal development in the brain. The emotional circuits in the brain are abnormal. And there also are differences in the white matter, which is the brain's computer cables that hook up the different brain departments.

- Temple Grandin

topic: Parenting, Emotional, White, Hook Up, Bad Parenting

To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.

- William James

topic: Philosophical, Understanding, Abnormal, Normal And Abnormal

I have a problem when people say something's real or not real, or normal or abnormal. The meaning of those words for me is very personal and subjective. I've always been confused and never had a clearcut understanding of the meaning of those kinds of words.

- Tim Burton

topic: Confused, Real, People, Normal And Abnormal

I guess I'm attracted to these off beat roles because my life has been a bit abnormal. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.

- Johnny Depp

topic: Roles, Abnormal, Problem, Normal And Abnormal

Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

- William Osler

source: William Osler (1927). “Aequanimitas”, p.189, Ravenio Books

topic: Life, Health, Law, Diseased, Variability

Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.

- Henry Adams

source: Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.408, Booklassic

topic: Bullying, Energy, Abnormal, Normal And Abnormal

You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere.

- D. H. Lawrence

source: D. H. Lawrence (2016). “D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Centaur Classics)”, p.538, D. H. Lawrence

topic: Love, Positive, Negative, Normal And Abnormal

Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.

- Leo Tolstoy

topic: Witty, Powerful, Stupid, Career Success, Normal And Abnormal

I truly cannot imagine men with men, women with women, doing what they were not physically created to do, without abnormal stress and misbehavior.

- Jerry Falwell

topic: Stress, Men, Abnormal, Normal And Abnormal

When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Life, Marriage, Wedding, Marriage Humor, Successful Marriage

That I survived the Holocaust and went on to love beautiful girls, to talk, to write, to have toast and tea and live my life - that is what is abnormal.

- Elie Wiesel

topic: Beautiful, Girl, Writing, Normal And Abnormal, Holocaust Survivor

I don't know how to have a normal relationship because I try to act normal and love from a normal place and live a normal life, but there is sort of an abnormal magnifying glass, like telescope lens, on everything that happens.

- Taylor Swift

source: "Taylor Swift Reveals Meaning Of ‘Red’ Album Title" by Cavan Sieczkowski, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 28, 2012.

topic: Glasses, Trying, And Love, Magnifying, Magnifying Glass

The idea of reverence for God is transmitted from parent to child, it is educated into an abnormal development, and thus almost indefinitely strengthened, but yet it does appear to me that the bent to worship is an integral part of man's nature.

- Annie Besant

source: Annie Besant (2014). “My Path to Atheism”, p.169, The Floating Press

topic: Children, Men, Ideas, Normal And Abnormal

Normal fear protects us; abnormal fear paralyses us. Normal fear motivates us to improve our individual and collective welfare; abnormal fear constantly poisons and distorts our inner lives. Our problem is not to be rid of fear but, rather to harness and master it.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Poison, Abnormal, Problem, Inner Life, Paralysis

I like to take these unusual characters and then make them as normal as possible, because we all know that the tragedy and the abnormal always hides itself behind the normal

- Isabelle Huppert

source: Interview with Christopher Cook, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2001.

topic: Character, Tragedy, Abnormal, Normal And Abnormal

I thought it was something peculiar to me. I thought I was abnormal.

- Louise Brown

topic: Peculiar, Abnormal, Normal And Abnormal

I have an appetite for the normal in my life, as well as the abnormal.

- Benedict Cumberbatch

topic: Abnormal, Appetite, Wells, Normal And Abnormal

It wasn't until school that we realised that we were abnormal.

- Gilberto Hernandez

topic: School, Artist, Abnormal, Normal And Abnormal

Every one of us, no matter how damaged or abnormal or shut down, we're all looking for love. Every person needs love in this world, but our views on what love is vary enormously.

- Olga Kurylenko

source: "Olga Kurylenko: 'You never really leave a Terrence Malick film'". Interview with Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2013.

topic: Love Is, Views, Needs, Need Love, Normal And Abnormal

Yes, I remember the barbed wire and the guard towers and the machine guns, but they became part of my normal landscape. What would be abnormal in normal times became my normality in camp.

- George Takei

topic: Gun, Wire, Would Be, Barbed Wire, Normal And Abnormal

Mob law is the most forcible expression of an abnormal public opinion; it shows that society is rotten to the core.

- Timothy Thomas Fortune

source: Timothy Thomas Fortune, Seth Moglen (2007). “Black and White: Land, Labor, and Politics in the South”, Simon and Schuster

topic: Expression, Law, Rotten, Normal And Abnormal

I am very abnormal... But it wasnt very long ago that I wasnt so abnormal. I was very normal and headed for a lifetime of paying medical bills as proof of my normalcy.

- Dirk Benedict

topic: Long, Bills, Normal, Medical Bills, Normal And Abnormal

Libertarians argue that no normal adult has the right to impose choices on other normal adults, except in abnormal circumstances, such as when one person finds another unconscious and administers medical assistance or calls an ambulance.

- Tom G. Palmer

topic: Choices, Adults, Abnormal, Ambulance, Normal And Abnormal

Guardians are necessary for children and abnormal adults, because they cannot make responsible choices for themselves.

- Tom G. Palmer

source: Tom G. Palmer (2009). “Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice”, p.35, Cato Institute

topic: Children, Choices, Abnormal, Normal And Abnormal

I was diagnosed with hypoglycemia, an abnormal decrease of sugar in the blood. Eventually I learned to eat five small meals a day. Now if I'm making a movie and get hungry, I call time out to eat some crackers

- Carol Alt

topic: Blood, Meals, Abnormal, Normal And Abnormal

It might, too, have been the singular cold that alienated me; for such chilliness was abnormal on so hot a day, and the abnormal always excites aversion, distrust, and fear.

- H. P. Lovecraft

source: H. P. Lovecraft (2014). “Complete Collection Of H. P. Lovecraft - 150 eBooks With 100+ Audiobooks (Complete Collection Of Lovecraft's Fiction, Juvenilia, Poems, Essays And Collaborations)”, p.555, Ageless Reads

topic: Fear, Hot, Abnormal, Normal And Abnormal

In the theory of gender I began from zero. There is no masculine power or privilege I did not covet. But slowly, step by step, decade by decade, I was forced to acknowledge that even a woman of abnormal will cannot escape her hormonal identity.

- Camille Paglia

topic: Zero, Identity, Abnormal, Normal And Abnormal

Abnormal, adj. Not conforming to standard. In matters of thought and conduct, to be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be detested.

- Ambrose Bierce

topic: Independent, Abnormal, Matter, Lexicographer, Resemblance

It's sad that the most glorious of sexual experiences can make us feel guilty, ashamed, embarrassed, and abnormal.

- Sue Johanson

topic: Abnormal, Guilty, Ashamed, Normal And Abnormal

All of us are mad. If it weren't for the fact that every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn't be any point in giving each person a separate name.

- Ugo Betti

source: Ugo Betti (1964). “Struggle Till Dawn”, San Francisco, Chandler

topic: Names, Mad, Giving, Normal And Abnormal

Doing everything with one arm, being well-known, and having a book and a movie, it's fairly abnormal. As far as just not having to worry about past experiences, I've healed very well.

- Bethany Hamilton

topic: Book, Past, Worry, Past Experiences, Normal And Abnormal

If I'm making a movie and get hungry, I call time-out and eat some crackers.

- Carol Alt

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Food, Hungry, Crackers, Normal And Abnormal

I just try and surround myself, for the biggest proportion of time that I can, with people who make me feel normal, because constantly feeling abnormal is quite difficult.

- Emma Watson

topic: People, Feelings, Trying, Normal And Abnormal

I have been putting words like 'abnormal' and 'deviant' in quotes because those categorizations are under fire now, the boundary between normal and abnormal as questionable now as are all the other boundaries that once defined social reality.

- Walter Truett Anderson

topic: Reality, Fire, Abnormal, Categorization, Questionable