Abnormal Quotes

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

Life, Problem, Off

To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
William James

Best, Study, Normal

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

Life, Death, Away

Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.
Leo Tolstoy

Stupid, Nietzsche

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

Real, Words, Confused

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, Bad

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.
David Herbert Lawrence

Love, Positive, Yourself

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

Life, Love, Beautiful

I never wanted to write the sort of song that said, 'Look at how abnormal and crazy and out there I am, man!'
Brian Eno

Crazy, Said, Wanted

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

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

Power, Energy, Serious

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

Sad, Guilty, Ashamed

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

Remember, Times, Normal

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

Time, Feeling, Try

Living is abnormal.
Eugene Ionesco

The size of my head though is pretty abnormal.
Philip Seymour Hoffman

Pretty, Though, Head

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.
Ugo Betti

Person, Giving, Mad

When your results are good, you are obviously going to have a lot of press. And when you start to falter a little bit, you are going to have some criticism, and there is nothing abnormal in that.
Carlos Ghosn

Good, Nothing, Start

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

Women, Men, Stress

While sleep is clearly vital to emotional well-being, what is it, exactly, about sleep that is so necessary? As it turns out, mood disorders are strongly linked to abnormal patterns of dreaming.
Andrew Weil

Emotional, Sleep, While

I thought it was something peculiar to me. I thought I was abnormal.
Louise Brown

Thought, Peculiar

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

Medical, Long, Normal

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

Time, Small, Learned

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

Society, Law, Opinion

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

School, Until, Realised

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

Children, Cannot, Themselves

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.
Anne Enright

Life, Amazing, Lives

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

Possible, Behind, Normal

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

Medical, Person, Another

They meant abnormal. Divisions of the kind were fashionable at that time, and it was so easy to stifle one's need to help by deciding that help could neither be accepted nor understood.
Janet Frame

Time, Help, Easy

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