Normal And Abnormal Quotes

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

  Carl Jung

  Second Chance, Thoughtful, Shrinking

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.114, Psychology Press

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• An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Abnormal, Behavior, Reactions

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.29, Beacon Press

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• 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

  Parenting, Emotional, White

  "A Conversation with Temple Grandin". "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. January 20, 2006.

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

  William James

  Philosophical, Understanding, Abnormal

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• 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

  Confused, Real, People

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• 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

  Roles, Abnormal, Problem

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• 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

  Life, Health, Law

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

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

  Henry Adams

  Bullying, Energy, Abnormal

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

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• 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

  Love, Positive, Negative

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

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• Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Witty, Powerful, Stupid

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• 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

  Stress, Men, Abnormal

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• 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

  Life, Marriage, Wedding

  Getting Married preface (1911)

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• 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

  Beautiful, Girl, Writing

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. November, 2000.

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• 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

  Glasses, Trying, And Love

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

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• 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

  Children, Men, Ideas

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

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• 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.

  Poison, Abnormal, Problem

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• 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

  Character, Tragedy, Abnormal

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

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

  Marcel Proust

  Abnormal, Homosexuality, Norm

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

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

  Louise Brown

  Peculiar, Abnormal

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

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Abnormal, Appetite, Wells

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

  Gilberto Hernandez

  School, Artist, Abnormal

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• 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

  Love Is, Views, Looking For Love

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

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• 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

  Gun, Wire, Would Be

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

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

  Timothy Thomas Fortune

  Expression, Law, Public Opinion

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

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• 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

  Long Ago, Medical Bills, Normalcy

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