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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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

  Choices, Adults, Abnormal

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

  Sue Johanson

  Abnormal, Guilty, Ashamed

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

  Carol Alt

  Food, Ice Cream, Abnormal

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

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• 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

  Fear, Hot, Abnormal

  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

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

  Camille Paglia

  Identity, Abnormal

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

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• Our problem is not to be rid of fear but rather to harness and master it.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Abnormal, Anticipation, Problem

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

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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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• 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. Wherefore the lexicographer adviseth a striving toward the straiter [sic] resemblance of the Average Man than he hath to himself. Whoso attaineth thereto shall have peace, the prospect of death and the hope of Hell.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Independent, Men, Average

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

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• 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

  Book, Past, Worry

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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, Abnormal, Matter

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

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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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• 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, Abnormal

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

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