Abnormal Quotes - Page 7

• This is a world that defines everything backwards, a world in which good is called bad, brightness is called darkness, up is called down, enlightenment is called abnormal behavior and abnormal behavior is applauded as reason.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Darkness, Humanity

  4 Copy quote

• I'm not a freak. I'm not really crazy or anything. I don't think I'm really abnormal. It's just, like anybody else, I have interests I cultivate, and one of my interests is not getting too used to things. I've sacrificed a lot of things in my life in order to keep that sense of things being unfamiliar.

  Jim Woodring

  Crazy, Thinking, Order

  4 Copy quote

• Victory is the normal experience of a Christian; defeat should be the abnormal experience.

  Watchman Nee

  Christian, Victory, Defeat

  Watchman Nee (1997). “The Overcoming Life: The Basis for the Normal Christian Life”, p.25, Living Stream Ministry

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• These are friendships that these girls are making that will be a lifetime and they're doing things that are so abnormal and to such a high level, that there's a bond that's like no other.

  Kim Zmeskal

  Girl, Levels, Lifetime

  8 Copy quote

• The idea of reverence for God is transmitted from parent to child, it is educated into an abnormal development, and thus almost indefinitely strengthened, but yet it does appear to me that the bent to worship is an integral part of man's nature.

  Annie Besant

  Children, Men, Ideas

  Annie Besant (2014). “My Path to Atheism”, p.169, The Floating Press

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• She always says she dislikes the abnormal, it is so obvious. She says the normal is so much more simply complicated and interesting.

  Gertrude Stein

  Interesting, Complicated, Obvious

  Gertrude Stein (2016). “THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ALICE B. TOKLAS (Modern Classics Series): Glance at the Parisian early 20th century avant-garde (One of the greatest nonfiction books of the 20th century)”, p.70, e-artnow

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Appetite has really become an artificial and abnormal thing, having taken the place of true hunger, which alone is natural. The one is a sign of bondage but the other, of freedom.

  Paul Brunton

  Taken, Hunger, Natural

  Paul Brunton (1986). “The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: Meditation. The body”

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Evil, Empathy, Quality

  91 Copy quote

• Our lives are part of a unique adventure... Nevertheless, most of us think the world is 'normal' and are constantly hunting for something abnormal--like angels or Martians. But that is just because we don't realize the world is a mystery. As for myself, I felt completely different. I saw the world as an amazing dream. I was hunting for some kind of explanation of how everything fit together.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Dream, Adventure, Angel

  Jostein Gaarder (2003). “The Solitaire Mystery”, p.166, Macmillan

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• I do not think that tragedy is our natural fate and I do not live in chronic dread of disaster. It is no happiness, but suffering that I consider unnatural. It is not success, but calamity that I regard as the abnormal exception in Human Life.

  Ayn Rand

  Fate, Thinking, Suffering

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.580, Hamilton Books

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Glasses, Trying, And Love

  "Taylor Swift Reveals Meaning Of ‘Red’ Album Title" by Cavan Sieczkowski, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 28, 2012.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• People realize that we're certainly faced with an abnormal amount of adversity. The Cincinnati faithful is still going through a healing process with what transpired with Coach Huggins in the fall. But over the 20 games they've seen this team, I think they appreciate the fact that this team continues to fight, even though they're not always happy with the result.

  Andy Kennedy

  Team, Fall, Healing

  4 Copy quote

• Nothing is wonderful except in the abnormal, and nothing is abnormal until we have grasped the norm.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wonderful, Norm

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.10, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am really interested in eccentric minds. It's rather like being fascinated by how cars work. It's really boring if your car works all the time. But as soon as something happens, you get the bonnet up. If someone has an abnormal or dysfunctional state of mind, you get the bonnet up.

  Mark Haddon

  Car, Mind, Eccentric

  11 Copy quote

• 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

  Song, Crazy, Writing

  "Brian Eno: from the Velvet Underground to Burial". Interview with Rob Fitzpatrick, www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm definitely going to bounce back, I don't doubt that one bit. The thing about this is you have to expect that when you're a back my age. You can't feel slighted if someone says that because it's a reality that it's abnormal for a guy my age to still be starting in the NFL. I can accept that. I still understand what the truth is to me, and that's what I believe. I don't really care what people say.

  Curtis Martin

  Believe, Reality, Nfl

  10 Copy quote

• Galactica has infinite possibilities. In fact, my character may be abnormal in the sense that she may be more independent than most of the women in classic space adventures.

  Maren Jensen

  Adventure, Character, Independent

  5 Copy quote

• 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

  Sarcastic, Drama, Normal

  45 Copy quote

• They're called in the Scripture the Beatitudes. You know why they're called the Beatitudes without being prestigious? Because they should be the attitudes of every believer. That's the normal Christian life, not the abnormal Christian life. The normal Christian life is holiness.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Christian, Attitude, Holiness

  15 Copy quote

• 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.

  Yukio Mishima

  World Destruction, Daily Life, States

  "Sun and Steel: Art, Action and Ritual Death". Book by Yukio Mishima, 1970.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Laughter, Healing, Health

  99 Copy quote

• 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

  Hurt, Taken, Compassion

  "Ignore the Young, Forget the Old" by Tavis Smiley, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 10, 2012.

  119 Copy quote

  Show source

• The steep ride up the and down the energy curve is the most abnormal thing that has ever happened in human history. Most of human history is a no-growth situation. Our culture is built on growth and that phase of human history is almost over and we are not prepared for it. Our biggest problem is not the end of our resources. That will be gradual. Our biggest problem is a cultural problem. We don't know how to cope with it.

  M. King Hubbert

  Curves, Growth, Energy

  14 Copy quote

• I can think of nothing in the world like the utter littleness, the paltriness, the contemptibleness, the degradation, of the woman who is tied down under a roof with a man who is really nothing to her; who wears the man’s name, who bears the man’s children — who plays the virtuous woman. . . . May I never, I say, become that abnormal merciless animal, that deformed monstrosity — a virtuous woman.

  Mary MacLane

  Children, Animal, Men

  16 Copy quote