Abnormal Quotes

An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior. (Viktor Frankl)
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. View quote
William Osler
Abnormal is so common, it's practically normal. View quote
Cory Doctorow
What is abnormal is that I am normal. 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. View quote
Elie Wiesel
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. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts. View quote
Henry Adams
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. View quote
Tim Burton
All of us are mad. If it weren't for the fact every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn't be any point in giving each person a separate name. View quote
Ugo Betti
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. View quote
George Takei
Being interviewed is one of the most abnormal things that you can do to somebody else. It's two steps removed from the Inquisition. View quote
Frank Zappa
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)
The most appropriate type of daily life for me was a day-by-day world destruction; peace was the most difficult and abnormal state to live in. View quote
Yukio Mishima
The imagination is the power that enables us to perceive the normal in the abnormal, the opposite of chaos in chaos. View quote
Wallace Stevens
Abnormal, adj. Not conforming to standards in matters of thought and conduct. To be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be detested. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
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. View quote
Temple Grandin
There is an alarming increase of violence and harassment against gay people, something that is being legitimized by the regime as they brand homosexuality as something abnormal and dangerous to children. View quote
Cecilia Malmström
Music can imply the infinite if enough things depart from the norm far enough. Strange "abnormal" events can lead to the feeling that anything can happen, and you have a music with no boundaries. View quote
Morton Feldman
Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose. View quote
Carl Jung
In love, happiness is an abnormal state. View quote
Marcel Proust
There was nothing abnormal about it when homosexuality was the norm. View quote
Marcel Proust
In some mysterious way, once one has gained an insight into human nature, that insight grows from day to day, and he to whom it has given to experience vicariously even one single form of earthly suffering acquires, by reason of this tragic lesson, an understanding of all its forms, even those most foreign to him, and apparently abnormal. (Stefan Zweig)
There's no such thing as a life that is not normal, or, there's no such thing as a life that is not abnormal. We all have amazing lives; we all have very dull lives. View quote
Anne Enright
You are not traditionally beautiful; and you know it. We women do. But what most people mean by beauty is really a kind of aesthetic acceptability, not so much character as a lack of it, a set of features and lineaments that hide their history, that suggest history itself does not exist. But the template by which we recognize the features and forms in the human body that cause the heart to halt, threatening to spill us over into the silence of death-that is drawn on another part of the soul entirely...But all sing, chant, hymn the history of the body, if only because we all know how people regard bodies that deviate from the lauded and totally abnormal norm named beauty. Most of us would rather not recognize such desires in ourselves and thus avoid all contemplation of what the possession of such features means about the lives, the bodies, the histories of others, preferring instead to go on merely accepting the acceptable. But that is not who I am. View quote
Samuel R. Delany
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. View quote
Isabelle Huppert
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. View quote
Max Wertheimer