To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal. — William James
An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior. — Viktor E. Frankl
Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent. — Sigmund Freud
Normality is to be different. Every person is a different person. And one day you need to be aware of your difference. Aware that you are not the same as the others. That is to be normal. — Alejandro Jodorowsky
There are four types: the cretin, the imbecile, the stupid and the mad. Normality is a balanced mixture of all four. — Umberto Eco
Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly. — Charles Addams
Not everything that steps out of line, and thus "abnormal", must necessarily be "inferior". — Hans Asperger
That's not normal, because we don't want to be normal. Normal is what weak people call it living. I call it death. — Greg Plitt
The normal is that which nobody quite is. If you listen to seemingly dull people very closely, you'll see that they're all mad in different and interesting ways, and are merely struggling to hide it. — Robert Anton Wilson
a normal human being ... does not exist. — Karen Horney
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from. — Jodie Foster
The normal make a living. The deranged make history. — Christopher Titus
The fact is, there really is no such thing as 'normal' - everybody's different, and that is the essence of their beauty — Kevyn Aucoin
Without deviance from normality, there can be no progress. — Frank Zappa
So, "normal" is really what society dictates as normal and if we're born in that world, we would see that as normal. But if you think about it for a second, is it really? — Jacque Fresco
Short Normal And Abnormal Quotes
Normality is what weak people call living, I call it death — Greg Plitt
What makes us the most normal," said Reiko, "is knowing that we're not normal. — Haruki Murakami
The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization. — Karen Horney
Neurotic behavior is quite predictable. Healthy behavior is unpredictable. — Carl Rogers
Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible. — Frank Zappa
Your culture sets your expectation for what is 'normal.' — James Clear
Normality is a fine ideal for those who have no imagination. — Carl Jung
Its OK to be weird. And maybe your weird is my normal. Whos to say? I think its an attitude. — Lady Gaga
Normal And Abnormal Image Quotes
I tried to be normal once. Worst to minutes of my life.
Abnormality Quotes
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change. — Carl Rogers
...if you are not like everybody else, then you are abnormal, if you are abnormal , then you are sick. These three categories, not being like everybody else, not being normal and being sick are in fact very different but have been reduced to the same thing — Michel Foucault
Oh! This'll impress you - I'm actually in the Abnormal Psychology textbook. Obviously my family is so proud. Keep in mind though, I'm a PEZ dispenser and I'm in the abnormal Psychology textbook. Who says you can't have it all? — Carrie Fisher
I prefer to be crazy and happy rather than normal and bitter.
Compassion constitutes a radical form of criticism, for it announces that the hurt is to be taken seriously, that the hurt is not to be accepted as normal and natural, but is an abnormal and unacceptable condition for humanness. — Walter Brueggemann
If people only knew the healing power of laughter and joy, many of our fine doctors would be out of business. Joy is one of nature's greatest medicines. Joy is always healthy. A pleasant state of mind tends to bring abnormal conditions back to normal. — Catherine Ponder
True empathy is always free of any evaluative or diagnostic quality. This comes across to the recipient with some surprise. "If I am not being judged, perhaps I am not so evil or abnormal as I have thought". — Carl Rogers
Don't give up. Normally it is the last key on the ring that opens the door.
Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose. — Carl Jung
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
Al Gore's performances could be a case study in abnormal-psychology classes. — Rich Lowry
I remember knowing, for a while, for a long time, that I was kind of abnormal in some sense. — Vitalik Buterin
Disease is an abnormal state of the body which primarily and independently produces a disturbance in the normal functions of the body. It may be an abnormality of temperament or form (structure). Symptom is a manifestation of some abnormal state in the body. It may be harmful as a colic pain or harmless as the flushing of cheeks in peripneumonia. — Avicenna
Every single word you have spoken is sharp, sarcastic and twisted. When I thought you were abnormal you suddenly turned out to be normal. When I thought you were normal you turned out to be abnormal. — Jae Hee
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
Perhaps most excitingly, we are uncovering the brain basis of our behaviors - normal, abnormal and in-between. We are mapping a neurobiology of what makes us us. — Robert M. Sapolsky
Chesterton spoke of 'the modern and morbid habit of always sacrificing the normal to the abnormal.' It would be hard to sum up liberalism for succinctly. — Joseph Sobran
Man is not only part of a field, but a part and member of his group. When people are together, as when they are at work, then the most unnatural behavior, which only appears in late stages or abnormal cases, would be to behave as separate Egos. Under normal circumstances they work in common, each a meaningfully functioning part of the whole. — Max Wertheimer
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.
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
You can't be normal and expect abnormal returns. — Jeffrey Pfeffer
My work involves the physical manifestation of emotional reality. Thus, the invisible becomes visible; the normal, abnormal; and the familiar, unfamiliar. Ordinary life is an endless source of fascination to me in its ritualistic objects and behavior. — Sandy Skoglund
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
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
Even a woman of abnormal will cannot escape her hormonal identity. — Camille Paglia
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
There was nothing abnormal about it when homosexuality was the norm. — Marcel Proust
I have a half-brother who is very, very, very gay, many cousins, best friends who are all members of the LGBT community, and for me to not say anything would be hypocritical. There is a lot of prejudice. People think it is abnormal. No, its just another normal. — Lea Salonga
I thought it was something peculiar to me. I thought I was abnormal. — Louise Brown
Our problem is not to be rid of fear but rather to harness and master it. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
We live in a society in which it is normal to be sick; and sick to be abnormal. — Edward Abbey
I think we all have something in our life's experience that makes us feel different. It's whether we have a gay parent or we have an alcoholic mother or maybe we don't know our father. And it's something that we feel bad about initially because we think we're abnormal. What's abnormal is our assumption that there's something called 'normal.' — Amy Richards
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
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
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
I am very abnormal... But it wasn't very long ago that I wasn't so abnormal. I was very normal and headed for a lifetime of paying medical bills as proof of my normalcy. — Dirk Benedict
Very few minds are strictly normal, and all religious fanatics are marked with abnormalities of various sorts. — H. P. Lovecraft
In my next life, I plan to be a more respectable creature. For now, this is what is given to us. So I don't know - I think we're all freaks at heart. I think some people strive desperately to be normal, and I think other people strive to be abnormal. — Katherine Dunn
Sex is normal and natural, and we've made it abnormal and unnatural. — Annie Sprinkle
It is a testament to the effectiveness of advertising campaigns funded by the animal-user industries that a diet that is bad for us and harmful to the planet is thought of as "normal" and a diet that promotes health, happiness, and well-being is thought of as alternative, abnormal, or faddish. In fact, these days it is relatively easy to find vegetarian options in many restaurants and supermarkets, though you may have to ask. — Sharon Gannon
The difference between Christian thinking and the non-Christian philosopher has always been at this point. The non-Christian philosopher has always said that man is normal now, but biblical Christianity says he is abnormal now. — Francis Schaeffer
One of the difficulties with grief research is that it risks making certain kinds of grief seem normal and others abnormal - and of course having a sense of the contours of grief is, I think, truly useful, one has to remember it's not a science, it's an individual reckoning, which science is just trying to help us describe. — Meghan O'Rourke
A person who loves and kisses a tree is a normal person; a person who hates and cuts a tree is an abnormal person. — Mehmet Murat Ildan
The adjuration to be "normal" seems shockingly repellent to me; I see neither hope nor comfort in sinking to that low level. I think it is ignorance that makes people think of abnormality only with horror and allows them to remain undismayed at the proximity of "normal" to average and mediocre. For surely anyone who achieves anything is, essentially, abnormal. — Karl A. Menninger
It wasn't until school that we realised that we were abnormal. — Gilberto Hernandez
Most people have only half developed their single personalities. That a man should split his into four and more; and should develop each separately and perfectly, was so abnormal that many normals failed to understand it. — Frederick Rolfe
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
Our educational system basically strives for normal-which is too bad. Sometimes the exceptional is classified as abnormal and pushed aside. — Neil Young
In those same decades, most UFO sightings were made in the daytime and frequently at close range, when shapes and surface features could be distinguished, thus making positive identification of normal sights easier and the descriptions of unusual sights more detailed. When all normal explanations had been eliminated, the witnesses could concentrate on those aspects of the experience which were most abnormal. — Don Berliner
Depression is not caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain, and it is not cured by medication. Depression may not even be an illness at all. Often, it can be a normal reaction to abnormal situations. Poverty, unemployment, and the loss of loved ones can make people depressed, and these social and situational causes of depression cannot be changed by drugs. — Irving Kirsch
I'm inclined to reserve all judgement, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and made me the victim of not a few veteran bores. The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person, and so it came about that in college I was unjustly accused of being a politician, because I was privy to the secret griefs of wild, unknown men. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
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