Quotes About No Such Thing As Normal

#1. What is "normal"? Everyone is unique. "Normal" is just a lie. There's no such thing as "Normal

Me

#2. There's no such thing as normal. There is no definition of normal. Normal is subjective. You can't - and shouldn't - force yourself to want something 'normal' and stop wanting what you truly want. It's a sure way to make your life miserable.

Alessandra Hazard

#3. Everybody knows there is no such thing as normal. There is no black-and-white definition of normal. Normal is subjective. There's only a messy, inconsistent, silly, hopeful version of how we feel most at home in our lives.

Tori Spelling

#4. We know by now that there's no such thing as normal - or rather, that we're all normal. We're all made of the same parts as everyone else, organized in a unique way. No two alike.

Emily Nagoski

#5. There's no such thing as 'normal'. That's just another word for lifeless. Madness (of the particularly nice/romantic kind) is an absolute prerequisite to a happy and successful life

Shah Rukh Khan

#6. You have to discard your own stereotypes. Remember, there's no such thing as normal.

Amy S. Wilensky

#7. While traveling around the world, I've had the opportunity to work with every living beauty icon. I've learned to appreciate idiosyncrasy. The fact is, there is really no such thing as 'normal' - everybody's different, and that is the essence of their beauty.

Kevyn Aucoin

#8. I understand the technique of eccentricity; it would be futile for a man to labor at establishing a reputation for oddity if he were ready at the slightest provocation to revert to normal action.

Rex Stout

#9. God desires to work supernaturally through normal people who are willing to follow Him wholeheartedly and reflect His glory.

Sally Clarkson

#10. But the problem with being weird was that everyone else was normal. So

Maggie Stiefvater

#11. You want to pass for a normal person? Don't tiptoe into people's bedrooms at night! Ever!'
'I can be creepy in front of you.'
'No, you can't! You need to go now.'
'I'll go watch the parentals.

Justine Larbalestier

#12. I would describe myself as a guy that's very normal but has the tendency to rib people, but never in a mean-spirited way.

Don Rickles

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

Soren Kierkegaard

#14. No normal man ever fell in love after thirty when the kidneys begin to disintegrate.

H.L. Mencken

#15. I would be delighted if the United States could have a positive relationship with Russia, and I would be thrilled if the Russian people, who are so capable, had a normal country that they could chart a different future.

Hillary Clinton

#16. The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life.

Grace Paley

#17. Virtual-reality researchers have long struggled to eliminate effects that distort the brain's normal processing of visual information, and when these effects arise in equipment that augments or mediates the real world, they can be that much more disturbing.

Steve Mann

#18. My life is fairly normal. I didn't wake up one morning and find out that I'm suddenly a star, with people clamoring at me. I feel like I'm moving up the ladder just a little, which is fine.

Daniel Stern

#19. Holy shit, Bird," I whispered through my teeth. "At least try to be normal. You have to at least try.

Nicole Krauss

#20. I feel for anybody who has that level of celebrity where you can't lead a normal life.

Martin Henderson

#21. I spun and jogged around the SUV. Climbing in I readjusted the seat from Godzilla setting to Normal so my feet could reach the pedals.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#22. When a man says that he is Jesus or Napoleon, or that the Martians are after him, or claims something else that seems outrageous to common sense, he is labeled psychotic and locked up in a madhouse. Freedom of speech is only for normal people.

Thomas Szasz

#23. There is no such thing as the supernatural or the paranormal. There is only the natural, the normal, and mysteries we have yet to explain.

Michael Shermer

#24. One of the oddities about being Judy Garland's daughter was that everyone treated my mother with such awe that they would never have asked me the normal questions kids get about their moms.

Lorna Luft

#25. What we call 'normal' in psychology is really a psychopathology of the average, so undramatic and so widely spread that we don't even notice it ordinarily.

Abraham Maslow

#26. At what point does the normal suddenly become the abnormal? he

Henning Mankell

#27. There is no such thing in life as normal

Steven Morrissey

#28. There is no such thing as a normal psychology that holds for all people.

Karen Horney

#29. Everyone has a bizarre childhood and unusual life experiences, whether they know it or not. There's no such thing as a normal childhood. What's useful in writing weird fiction is learning how to understand and articulate those moments of personal, particular strangeness.

Kelly Link

#30. There is no such thing as a normal period of history. Normality is a fiction of economic textbooks.

Joan Robinson

#31. 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

#32. Every year it seems to me I hear complaints about spring. It is either "late" or "unusually cold," "abnormally dry" or "fantastically wet," for no one is ever willing to admit that there is no such thing as a normal spring.

Thalassa Cruso

#33. There's no such thing as a normal life. Some lives are just more interesting than others, and we shouldn't judge people for being boring.

Seanan McGuire

#34. There's no such thing as a normal angel. It's never done that way.

Steve Aylett

#35. There's no such thing as a normal highschool experience, Thorny. You assume everyone else is happy all he time and living an ideal life. You don't get that other people are pretending too.

Chelsea Sedoti

#36. There is no such thing as an average human being. If you have a normal brain, you are superior.

Ben Carson

#37. Actually, there is no such thing as a homosexual person, any more than there is such a thing as a heterosexual person. The words are adjectives describing sexual acts, not people. The sexual acts are entirely normal; if they were not, no one would perform them.

Gore Vidal

#38. I found it very comforting to see that there is no such thing as a completely normal family. People find their way through whatever the differences may be.

Andrew Solomon

#39. There is no such thing as a normal family so don't trip off it, just deal with it.

Ice-T

#40. People say I'm controversial. But I think I lead a very balanced and normal life.

Ricardo Salinas Pliego

#41. 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

#42. It does not seem possible to think of oneself as normal without thinking that some other kind of person is pathological,

Michael Warner

#43. Most people are always doubtful as to whether they are happy or not, cheerful or not. This is the normal state of happiness, as doubt is a most natural thing.

Yukio Mishima

#44. On the 8th day, God created Mankind. Why was he having such a bad day? Why did he create all of you normal ... but forget so many important parts of me?

Mick Foley

#45. The thing about adolescence is that you are emerging from a state of obscurity. You are coming out into the world from your family. Your family can seem normal because it is your family and all you know, but in fact it is a mess.

Meg Rosoff

#46. You should eat more than that. It must take a lot of lettuce and carrots to keep up any kind of normal body weight.

Thea Harrison

#47. What is normal? Normal is only ordinary; mediocre. Life belongs to the rare, exceptional individual who dares to be different.

V.C. Andrews

#48. I'd be a liar if I said I had a normal family.

Edward Furlong

#49. Today is just another normal day full of miracles, gifts, and opportunities.

Robert Holden

#50. 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

#51. I dress normal because I want people to treat me regular. And their brains explode. It's really fun.

Sarah Silverman

#52. Eyes are very appealing to me. I also like somebody who is interested in a career for themselves and can treat me like a normal person.

Brian Littrell

#53. Sheesh, I'm surprised you've survived out here this long. Tell me, are you normal for a warrior or are you like a special day-release case or something?" "What?

Mina Carter

#54. I understand. You work very hard two days a week and you need a five-day weekend. That's normal.

Neil Simon

#55. There are kinds of action, for good or ill, that lie so far outside the boundaries of normal behavior that they force us, in acknowledging that they have occurred, to restructure our own understanding of reality. We have to make room for them.

Guy Gavriel Kay

#56. There was no warning before the outbreaks began. One day, things were normal; the next, people who were supposedly dead were getting up and attacking anything that came into range. This was upsetting for everyone involved, except for the infected, who were past being upset about that sort of thing.

Mira Grant

#57. I still sing. I don't know if I'm going to sing on 'Glee' or 'New Normal.'

NeNe Leakes

#58. As spokesman for Lipitor, I have been an advocate of preventive medicine in addition to my work with the Jarvik 2000 Heart, which has rescued people from death and sustained a patient with a normal, mobile lifestyle for seven and a half years - the longest in the world.

Robert Jarvik

#59. I was a wild child. It's nice, though, now to have grown up and be normal and domestic. I've become very traditional. Conservative, worldly and very wise but fun.

Kelly Carlson

#60. Shall we go away whenever life looks like turning in the slightest uncanny, or not quite normal, or even rather painful and mortifying? No, surely not. Rather stay and look matters in the face, brave them out; perhaps precisely in so doing lies a lesson for us to learn.

Thomas Mann

#61. I have quite a normal family and I'm bored with how normal my family is. I want to mess stuff up a bit. I chose the messed up characters because I find that that's acting. I want to explore emotions that you otherwise wouldn't be able to explore.

Chloe Grace Moretz

#62. Touring is just not normal for me. My personality is to never ever talk to people if I can help it.

John Darnielle

#63. When we think of "taking Christ into the workplace" or "keeping Christ in the home," we are making our faith into a set of special acts. The "specialness" of such acts just underscores the point - that being a Christian, being Christ's isn't thought of as a normal part of life.

Dallas Willard

#64. Temporary feelings of regret are a normal part of the mourning process. This helps us retrieve our lost dreams. If we hold on to regret, we risk trapping ourselves in a prison of unrealized dreams from which it is difficult to escape.

Barbara De Angelis

#65. No-one has ever called me a cool dude. I'm somewhere between geek and normal.

Linus Torvalds

#66. Sexual normalcy and abnormality are personal and subjective concepts. What is unnatural to one [person] is natural to another. What is abnormal under certain conditions may be completely normal under others. And, in any event, to be different is not necessarily to be wrong, or to be sick.

Victor J. Banis

#67. A lot of people say I'm not very friendly, that I'm cold. But I'm just the opposite. I live a very simple life. I'm a normal person, very sensitive, very caring about those around me.

Justine Henin

#68. Good or bad, if you're not "normal," you can't have a normal relationship. If you are different, people will relate to you differently.

Donna Lynn Hope

#69. I'm totally normal. I love watching movies and hanging out with my friends at my house. I still go to the mall; I love to text and go on my computer. I'm totally normal - sounds kind of boring, right?

Keke Palmer

#70. What happened was, my parents after 'Circus Boy' decided to take me out of show business for two years to go back to normal school. It was the smartest thing they ever did.

Micky Dolenz

#71. Schiller is an important philosopher because he shows just how integral the idea of beauty is in normal life.

Frederick C. Beiser

#72. I feel like plenty of people have normal-seeming families that, as they're growing up, feel awful. I'd rather have one that looks weird from the outside but felt really normal.

Megan Amram