Normal Human Quotes

#1. It's much easier to learn what you should do in trading than to do it. Good systems tend to violate normal human tendencies.

William Eckhardt

#2. Severe depression, put simply, is an overwhelming and unmanageable onslaught of every normal, human fear and difficult emotion. It is a loss of and lack of perspective and proportion.

Sally Brampton

#3. I want you to know, at this very moment, I am simulating normal human behavior.

Craig Newmark

#4. I prefer working out of strict continuity, because no normal human being can have a firm grip on the constantly shifting bardo-like territory of a comics universe, where entire histories can be erased by a strong enough super-sneeze.

Grant Morrison

#5. Rider/Host relationship is not always one-sided. In fact, many benefits are extended to the Host as well. It can survive up to double the life expectancy of a normal human (between 150 and 200 years), depending on a number of

Pete Kahle

#6. Just for tonight, let's pretend I'm not a priest and you're not crazy. We're just two normal human beings having a good time. Just a man and a woman at a rip-off carnival, living in the moment.

Nancee Cain

#7. I am persuaded that normal human beings are biologically built for an activity that is aimed toward a goal and that idleness, or aimless work (like Auschwitz's Arbeit), gives rise to suffering and to atrophy.

Primo Levi

#8. I think, for one, we have to really accept that anger is a normal human emotion that can be a positive force for change.

Koren Zailckas

#9. I don't think people should be encouraged to look like Kate Moss; I think that's unreasonable. I think the normal human body should be glorified. By the same token, if you need a stick to wash yourself, you're not healthy.

Anthony Bourdain

#10. Jealousy is an uncontrollable emotion. It attacks all of us. As long as you don't let it get the best of you, I'm sure you and your envy can live in harmony without anyone getting hurt. So, see? There's no need to feel bad about it. It makes you normal. Human.

Linda Kage

#11. The theory of democratic government is not that the will of the people is always right, but rather that normal human beings of average intelligence will, if given a chance, learn the right and best course by bitter experience.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#12. I was born with a different kind of morality. The morality of an animal - of a crow or a fox or an owl - and not of a normal human being. I

Peter Swanson

#13. Fear, anxiety, stress and panic, all these are basic evolutionary expression of the human brain. They are part of the normal human condition.

Abhijit Naskar

#14. But on the upside, your seraph form will never age. And the only way to die is by a demon blade. As long you survive fighting them, you're immortal to the things that would kill a normal human. Think of the money you'll save on medical bills. (Jack)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#15. [My] photos are often out of focus, rough, streaky, warped, etc. But if you think about it, a normal human being will in one day perceive an infinite number of images, and some of them are focused upon, others are barely seen out of the corner of one's eye.

Daido Moriyama

#16. We all have secrets, some secrets bigger than others, is a normal human thing.

Viggo Mortensen

#17. There is no fun equal to the satisfaction of doing one's best. The things that are most worthwhile in life are really those within the reach of almost every normal human being who cares to seek them out.

B.C. Forbes

#18. Except for normal human emotions we would be feeling anyway, and twinges of discomfort as we begin to behave differently, recovery from codependency is exciting. It is liberating. It lets us be who we are. It lets other people be who they are.

Melody Beattie

#19. People are disappearing from movies, and normal human behaviour is disappearing from movies ... You are not always fighting a creature in life. That's part of life, it's a pretty big part of life, but it's not all of life.

Judd Apatow

#20. I know you wish to be normal, human, but soon you will see there is nothing better than what you are.

Penelope Fletcher

#21. I think a brain can be made "more thinking" or made "more emotional." At what point does this become abnormal? Autism in its milder variants, I think, is part of normal human variation.

Temple Grandin

#22. All normal human beings have soi-disant mixed-up glands. The race is divided into two parts: those who know this and those who do not.

Robert A. Heinlein

#23. Believe it or not, a normal human being is one who can have an orgasm and is adjusted to his society.

Aldous Huxley

#24. Very young children are not afraid to express what they feel. They are so loving that if they perceive love, they melt into love. They are not afraid to love at all. That is the description of a normal human being.

Miguel Ruiz

#25. A day came when I should have died, and after that nothing seemed very important. So I have stayed as I am, without regret, separated from the normal human condition.

Guy Sajer

#26. Every normal human being (and not merely the 'artist') has an inexhaustible store of buried images in his subconscious, it is merely a matter of courage or liberating procedures ... of voyages into the unconscious, to bring pure and unadulterated found objects to light.

Max Ernst

#27. The reason writers are such fragile beings, Marcus, is that they suffer from two sorts of emotional pain, which is twice as much as a normal human being: the heartache of love and the heartache of books. Writing a book is like loving someone. It can be very painful.

Joel Dicker

#28. I would love to play a normal human being with a little bit of a comedic bend that had a love interest. I would love to explore comedy, like a half-hour kind of single-camera comedy. I think that would kind of suit me best.

Reggie Lee

#29. As someone had said, all you had to do was to keep your insanity under control.
You could cry, get worried or angry like any other normal human being, as long as you remembered that, up above, your spirit was laughing out loud at all those thorny situations.

Paulo Coelho

#30. Having negative thoughts and feelings means I'm a normal human being.

Russ Harris

#31. I think diva is an inevitable outcome of the industry, and I don't think it reflects on the person at all. You take a normal human being, and basically, for 24 hours, seven days a week, apart from sleeping, you introduce them to places and things almost every minute that are brand new.

Chet Faker

#32. A person who is severely impaired never knows his hidden sources of strength until he is treated like a normal human being and encouraged to shape his own life.

Helen Keller

#33. Human beings are social creatures. We are social not just in the trivial sense that we like company, and not just in the obvious sense that we each depend on others. We are social in a more elemental way: simply to exist as a normal human being requires interaction with other people.

Atul Gawande

#34. As a full-time, and serious-minded, UFO investigator, I strongly side with the proponents. It seems indisputable that the phenomenon is real, and that it falls outside the scope of "normal" human experience.

Peter Davenport

#35. What is terrifying is the ability, through mass brainwashing or propaganda, to change normal human instinct, which does not necessarily contain very much hatred.

Antony Beevor

#36. We may yet live to see the day when women will be no longer news! And it cannot come too soon. I want to be a peaceful, happy, normal human being, pursuing my unimpeded way through life, never having to stop to explain, defend or apologize for my sex.

Nellie L. McClung

#37. I can be a snarky Asshole, or I can be sort of mentally impaired. It's very hard for me to just be normal human being.

Michael Ian Black

#38. 'Crash' is a metaphor for what I see as the dehumanizing elements that are present in the world in which we live. We're distanced by the nature of the society we inhabit from a normal human reaction.

J.G. Ballard

#39. We now live in a world where murderers and terrorists can cause death and mayhem, and when the time is "right" for them, they convert to normal human values, and become a global icon and saint!

Tony Dovale

#40. I don't understand why things always go from perfect to weird with us. It's like we're incapable of normal human interaction.

Stephanie Perkins

#41. I'm a normal human being. I don't have any desire to change my body as a result of having had two kids. That's a good thing, isn't it?

Kate Winslet

#42. I have to stay humble. I'm just a normal human with a job that is televised.

Jai Rodriguez

#43. New vampires are discouraged from trying to return to their normal human routines. Especially if those routines include tanning or working as a fireman. Your day will not end well.

Molly Harper

#44. This we must say, that everything is economics and economic interest as mere satisfaction of physical needs had, have and always will have a subordinate role in a normal human, that beyond this sphere must be differentiated from an order of higher values, political , spiritual and heroic.

Julius Evola

#45. I have you for being normal, I hate you for it. You're a normal human being. What right have you to that?

Doris Lessing

#46. Every day of my life, I feel fat. It's not correct thinking in the natural, normal human being's way of life.

Angie Everhart

#47. When things go smoothly, then we can pretend we are something very special. But something happens, something unexpected, then we are forced to act like normal human beings.

Dalai Lama XIV

#48. There are days like any normal human being where I wake up and I don't feel like going to work.

Mary Hart

#49. Drug companies are spending billions of dollars to turn normal human experiences like fear or sadness into medical diseases. They aren't developing cures; they're creating customers.

Julie Holland

#50. Aiming at health, restoring health - that is a goal that is both morally important and limited, because it aims at the restoration of normal human functioning, which is an important part of human flourishing.

Michael Sandel

#51. OK.So beside the possible extended lietime you live a normal human life? You what ... you have an apartment in LA? A life? A car? A girlfriend?" she threw in.
"Yes.Yes.Yes.Yes.No."
Ari grunted."We're back to one word answers?"
"Yes.

Samantha Young

#52. Yet, as should become obvious, genocidal events have been common enough to suggest that they cannot be explained as some kind of deviant behavior. On the contrary, given the right circumstances, normal human beings are all too ready to kill by category.

Daniel Chirot

#53. So easy to take it for granted, but this is something no normal human was made to see. The world of magic has blessed me with wonders and it's only right to stop every now and then to appreciate it.

Darren Shan

#54. How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

Oscar Wilde

#55. I'm saying that Nexus may defy human understanding because it is not the product of normal human thought,"Holtzman said. "It is the product of posthuman thought.

Ramez Naam

#56. I don't know how to live a normal human life.

Jesse Andrews

#57. Are you really speechless or has the vodka finally impaired your ability to function like a normal human?

Heidi McLaughlin

#58. Education, like everything else, goes in fads, and has the normal human tendency to put up with something bad for just so long, and then rush to the other extreme.

Anthony Standen

#59. Because normal human activity is worse for nature than the greatest nuclear accident in history.

Martin Cruz Smith

#60. In my games I have sometimes found a combination intuitively simply feeling that it must be there. Yet I was not able to translate my thought processes into normal human language.

Mikhail Tal

#61. I think you underestimate my capacity for taking normal human interaction and making it awkward.

Tessa Dare

#62. Scientists in California have discovered a chemical in the brain that causes use of Windows in otherwise normal human beings. It's called alcohol.

David Pogue

#63. No TV show in history, no movie ever made - nothing you can imagine as being written or filmed or performed can turn a normal human being into a Dexter.

Jeff Lindsay

#64. The way the normal human ego tries to fill its emptiness and deal with its discomfort is by comparing itself to other people. All the time.

Timothy Keller

#65. A normal human being ... does not exist.

Karen Horney

#66. Art and writing come from somewhere down around the lizard brain. It's a much more peculiar activity than we like to think it is. The problems arise when we try to domesticate the practice, to pretend that it's a normal human activity and that "everybody's creative." They're not.

Dave Hickey

#67. I was a normal human being, but I did like that. I read a lot. I also liked math and science.

Jamie Dimon

#68. Margot? Sad?" Chris picks at her nails. "Margot doesn't have normal human emotions like the rest of us.

Jenny Han

#69. In those simpler days, you could just take pictures of movie stars and show them the way they were, as normal human beings. And if I felt part of any movement at the time, it was just to do that - to be journalistic and photograph what is, rather than what is made up.

Elliott Erwitt

#70. Whites would accuse you of causing trouble when all you were doing was acting like a normal human being instead of cringing.

Rosa Parks

#71. There is no way to explain enlightenment. It is just a word to indicate something beyond, something very, very far beyond the normal human condition.

Frederick Lenz

#72. I was always told that music isn't a 'realistic' path to take, and like a normal human being, I doubted myself over and over because I was afraid of failure.

Alessia Cara

#73. Everyone represses everything. Do you think any of these "normal" human beings really do exactly what they want to do all the time? 'Course not. It's just the same. We're middle-class and we're British. Repression is in our veins.

Matt Haig

#74. You are normal, even if it was you in that video. Normal human beings do crazy shit sometimes. One time I let this guy dress up as SpongeBob SquarePants while we had sex.

Taylor Bell

#75. Be proud to act like a normal human being. Keep daylight hours, get a regular job, and mix in the company of people with a fixed sense of right and wrong.
The Abstainer's Handbook (second edition, p. 89)

Matt Haig

#76. Some days I woke up and got out of bed and brushed my teeth like any normal human being; some days I woke up and lay in bed and looked at the ceiling and wondered what the hell the point was of getting out of bed and brushing my teeth like any normal human being.

Ned Vizzini

#77. I am just a normal human being - I am alive! Why is anyone surprised that I am human? Like many New Yorkers, I have a multifaceted life.

Nouriel Roubini

#78. We want to bring people back to normal human social relationships. Your digital stuff can be there, but it doesn't have to take over your whole world.

Rony Abovitz

#79. Our normal human tendencies are distraction and dissipation. We begin one task, then get seduced by some other option, and lose our focus. We drift away from what is difficult and we know to be true, to what is comfortable and socially condoned.

Daniel Pinchbeck

#80. We both see strangers and react. We don't like to walk by people without nodding. We're broken when people are rude. Were broken when people can't meet us halfway. We can't accept the limits of normal human relations-chilly, clothed, circumscribed. Our hearts pull against their leashes.

Dave Eggers

#81. The slow compromise, or even surrender, of our fondest hopes is a regular feature of normal human life.

Leston Havens

#82. Jealousy is a normal human emotion. When people act on that emotion, they then become a hater.

Ron Baratono

#83. I wish there was some way to explain how very uninterested I was in a normal human life.

Stephenie Meyer

#84. Our normal human tendency is to enjoy life, to play, to explore, to be happy, and to love.

Miguel Ruiz

#85. Being easily freaked out comes with its own special skill set: you develop subtle tricks to work around it, make sure people don't notice. Pretty soon, if you're a fast learner, you can get through the day looking almost exactly like a normal human being.

Tana French

#86. I'd like to get into some sort of workout regimen so I can properly be healthy and exercise like a normal human being. I seem to not do that ... ever.

Dylan O'Brien

#87. Any natural, normal human being, when faced with any kind of loss, will go from shock all the way through acceptance.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#88. I would insist that poetry is a normal human activity and its proper concern all the things that happen to people.

Michael Longley

#89. Often expecting immediate returns for goodness in this world is a sign of a normal human being

Adil Adam Memon

#90. It is the normal state of the human heart to try to build its identity around something besides God.

Soren Kierkegaard

#91. It was probably no accident that it was the cripple Hephaestus who made ingenious machines; a normal man didn't have to hoist or jack himself over hindrances by means of cranks, chains and metal parts. Then it was in the line of human advance that Einhorn could do so much.

Saul Bellow

#92. If we do not have a vision before us of where we are headed, we will assume that the status quo is normal, and that we and our cultures and our societies are "only human," without ever realizing that we have never seen normal humanity, in our lives.

Russell D. Moore

#93. Mistakes are normal and human. Make them small, accept them, correct them, and forget them.

Carlos Slim

#94. When did the very first case of racism even occur? When did such blind hatred devour the souls of men and make them turn on their own brothers and sisters? What ever taught them that it was normal to be such monsters?

Rebecca McNutt

#95. It's human nature to be curious about people, and to be more curious about young people than old people. We want to cheer something on at the same time we want to tear it down. That's just so normal.

Amy Grant

#96. It's normal to feel pain in your hands and feet, if you're using your feet as feet and your hands as hands. And for a human being to feel stress is normal - if he's living a normal life. And if it's normal, how can it be bad?

Marcus Aurelius

#97. Doormats. It was true that actors had a perception, an understanding of human motive, that normal people lacked. It had nothing to do with intelligence, and very little to do with education.

Josephine Tey

#98. Nationalism is fraught with dangers, of course, but so is the blind refusal to recognize that attachment to one's own culture, traditions, and history is a creative, normal, and healthy part of human experience.

Anthony Daniels

#99. A 'normal person' is what is left after society has squeezed out all unconventional opinions and aspirations out of a human being.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#100. Man was born into barbarism when killing his fellow man was a normal condition of existence. He became endowed with a conscience.
And he has now reached the day when violence toward another human being must become as abhorrent as eating another's flesh.

Martin Luther King Jr.