Abnormal Quotes

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

  William James

  Philosophical, Understanding, Way

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• 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

  People, Feelings, Trying

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

  Louise Brown

  Peculiar, Normal And Abnormal

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

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Behavior, Reactions, Situation

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

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• 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

  Independent, Matter, Conformity

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.3, 谷月社

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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, Unusual

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

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• Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Witty, Powerful, Stupid

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• 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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• 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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• Indeed, so far from being humorous, the male American is the most abnormally serious creature who ever existed.. It is only fair to admit that he can exaggerate, but even his exaggeration has a rational basis. It is not founded on wit or fancy; it does not spring from any poetic imagination.

  Oscar Wilde

  Spring, Humorous, Imagination

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• The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament normal it would seem to people to be abnormal.

  Vance Havner

  People, Church, New Testament

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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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• Your Englishman, confronted by something abnormal will always pretend that it isn't there. If, however, you force him to look into it, he'll at once pretend that he sees the object not for what it is but for something that he would like it to be.

  James Agate

  Looks, Force, Englishmen

  October 14, 1932 entry in "Ego". Book by James Agate, 1935.

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• I should love to do a novel, about one abnormal character seeing present-day life, very ordinary life, yet arresting through it, abnormality, until at the end the reader sees, and with little reluctance, that he is not abnormal at all, and that the main character might as well be himself.

  Patricia Highsmith

  Character, Ordinary, Littles

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• 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

  Blood, Meals, Sugar

  "The Body Game". Interview with Elizabeth Sporkin, people.com. January 11, 1993.

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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, Problem, Welfare

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

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

  Henry Adams

  Bullying, Energy, Facts

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

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• Even a woman of abnormal will cannot escape her hormonal identity.

  Camille Paglia

  Identity, Normal And Abnormal

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.104, Vintage

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

  Tom G. Palmer

  Children, Choices, Adults

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

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• 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

  Names, Giving, Mad

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

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

  Sue Johanson

  Guilty, Ashamed, Embarrassed

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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, Problem, Beats

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

  Gilberto Hernandez

  School, Artist, Realised

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