Quotes About Normalcy

#1. 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

#2. It was inevitable for people to try to create a sense of normalcy in a place where nothing was normal. It helped one get through the day, to add predictability to a life that was inherently unpredictable.

Nicholas Sparks

#3. I love the normalcy of Cleveland. There's regular people there.

Drew Carey

#4. I watch soap operas. I bake brownies. Normalcy is coursing through my veins.

Parker Posey

#5. We have no idea, but its not like we're going to win any awards for normalcy anytime soon. So you get into people's heads? The two of us can throw people around like toys. Zu once blew up an AC unit, and all she did was walk by it.

Alexandra Bracken

#6. He wondered if normalcy was something, like vision or silence, you didn't realize was precious until you lost it.

Cassandra Clare

#7. Normalcy...what a strange word. Its definition can be changed so completely by one phone call...

Diana Mankin Phelps

#8. I don't deny that I had a very privileged upbringing, but my parents and that town maintained a sense of normalcy that I think many people find hard to achieve, and I am so grateful for that.

Dylan Penn

#9. It seems that nonsense is the only sensible recourse to remedy the nonsense of society's accepted normalcy

Natasha Tsakos

#10. Most people take long breaks after Olympics. I needed some normalcy back in my life, so I came back to the pool.

Eric Shanteau

#11. Sophie would be the first to share his home. His life. Normalcy. As normal as two broken people could make it. Guilt nagged him that they were coming together on such odd terms. Sophie Menzies deserved far more. He was getting far more than he deserved.

Laura Frantz

#12. The current of normalcy will pull you away from God at every opportunity if you let it.

Craig Groeschel

#13. My childhood was so inconsistent that I never expected normalcy, and it's enough for me to be able to have time and space to be good to myself and the people around me. Children are nice, but I decided to save myself instead.

Meghan Daum

#14. There is so much more to this world then outward appearances. Our society basks in the illusion of normalcy every day, and hides from the truth every night.

Amber Benson

#15. No, normalcy is taken for granted until it's gone.

Maryanne O'Hara

#16. The problem of living is at bottom an economic one. And this alone is bad enough, even in a period of so-called "normalcy." But living has been considerably complicated of late in various ways - by war, by questions of personal liberty, and by "menaces" of one kind or another.

Benton MacKaye

#17. I always spend a good deal of time with the people I write about. I try and smell the normalcy of their lives. I try to look at the normal rhythm of their life.

Peter Landesman

#18. So, this is how it's become? This is how I've become? A walking contradiction? I'm surrounded by people and feel alone. I claim to crave a bit of normalcy but now that I have some, it's like I don't know what to do with it, I don't know how to be a normal person anymore.

Gayle Forman

#19. The particular refugee camp we were in, they were hungry for play, they were hungry for any kind of normalcy.

Connie Sellecca

#20. I did a lot of my school on set. Some years I went to a private school for a couple of hours, and then I'd always finish up with a tutor. I couldn't do full days, but I tried to maintain my friendships and some normalcy while doing a show.

Candace Cameron Bure

#21. No one's family is normal. Normalcy is a lie invented by advertising agencies to make the rest of us feel inferior.

Claire LaZebnik

#22. It was as if the words they spoke were weaving a kind of net, a net of normalcy and propriety and sanity, around a situation that was anything but. The

T. Kingfisher

#23. I enjoy my crazy, thank you very much. I noticed a long time ago that those who value normalcy to the point of making someone else feel like shit for being different were assholes. I stopped caring about what people thought of me after that.

Alanea Alder

#24. It was those words that made me fall in love with him. Right there in that spot. Because he wanted me to be like him. That was his normalcy.

Amber L. Johnson

#25. Who among us can claim normalcy, Bishop?

David Marusek

#26. It was surreal to see such normalcy in the midst of my personal crisis. The horses still raced. The vendors still served food. The world did not stop because I had a brain tumor.

Sally Stap

#27. It wasn't just pretending everything was fine or grasping at normalcy, but grabbing it by the ears and making it my bitch.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#28. I'm so sorry, Brody. I won't bullshit you and feed you a line about how it will get easier, because I know it won't. You don't get over losing someone you love. You just learn to live through the pain every day as you try to have some kind of normalcy in your life.

Danielle Jamie

#29. We can't have cellphones, TV, radio or the Internet. If the president died, we'd have no idea. There's no normalcy. It's just like prison, with cameras.

Nicole Polizzi

#30. I fought the idea of having security for a very long time, because I really value normalcy. I really do. I like to be able to take a drive by myself.

Taylor Swift

#31. I realize that nothing is really normal. All it takes to alter normalcy is a death or a birth. Or just some misguided fear, love, or loneliness that never goes away.

Kevin Sampsell

#32. I discovered that normalcy can be like an extra layer of clothing that you put on in the morning.

Autumn Doughton

#33. It's a wonderful time when you sit down around the table for dinner and discuss life. No matter where you are, it gives the semblance of normalcy to my crazy world.

Melina Kanakaredes

#34. ( ... )normalcy is an illusion. Each person is utterly unique. A standard of normalcy is something that most people of the world simply will never access.

Colleen Houck

#35. Entranced by the flight of a raven, I watch its shadow move effortlessly against golden, shimmering granite. I long to be that free, flying above the cluttered world of normalcy, where so many are half alive.

Dean Potter

#36. I really like Wisconsin. I enjoy it. I enjoy the people. I enjoy the fact that it's not L.A. or New York. And there's some sense of normalcy here - people having children in homes they can somewhat afford to live in.

Michael Feldman

#37. As we do at such times I turned on my automatic pilot and went through the motions of normalcy on the outside, so that I could concentrate all my powers on surviving the near-mortal wound inside.

Sonia Johnson

#38. If you ignored the benign ghost that haunted the place and the witch who lived inside, it was practically the picture of normalcy.

Deborah Blake

#39. A critical point: Is an inter-phase between crisis and normalcy, life and death, danger and safety, failure and success

Ikechukwu Joseph

#40. Designers can create normalcy out of chaos; they can clearly communicate ideas through the organising and manipulating of words and pictures.

Jeffrey Veen

#41. NEVER FORGET YOUR RESPONSIBILITY. STRIVE TO BE WORTHY. NORMALCY IS THE KEY TO SUCCESS.

Rick Riordan

#42. Someone who'll bring some normalcy into my life and help me stay in touch with reality. That is something I'm curious about. There are so many actors who are married to people from non-film backgrounds, and their marriages are successful. I'm tired of dating actresses.

Shahid Kapoor

#43. Many have never risked losing the normalcy of their daily existence to gain the astonishing experience of having to see God come through or die.

Murray Pura

#44. If you say city to people, people have no problem thinking of the city as rife with problematic, screwed-up people, but if you say suburbs - and I'm not the first person to say this, it's been said over and over again in literature - there's a sense of normalcy.

Eric Bogosian

#45. Landing on the shores of normalcy is wonderful, especially after being tossed around in the sea of sickness.

Khang Kijarro Nguyen

#46. Normalcy doesn't exist it's a fantasy, we all try to play out in reality.

Angel M.B. Chadwick

#47. ...one of those moments had just passed, a moment in which normalcy becomes crisis and then flips back so fast it's hard to hang onto the significance of what has just happened" (143).

Jo Deurbrouck

#48. Was this normalcy-predictable patterns, the certainty of doing the same thing everyday? Because if so, normalcy was about to make me freak out and start screaming.

James Patterson

#49. The normalcy of it almost kills me. Even in a world turned upside down, a world of war and insanity, people hang their clothing; they fold their pants; they make their beds.
It is the only way.

Lauren Oliver

#50. Progress is obtained only by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems. When you solve problems, all you do is guarantee a return to normalcy.

Peter Drucker

#51. I think that most people who are just artists, who are getting famous, would trade a lot of their fame back for some normalcy, pretty much immediately.

Ansel Elgort

#52. I feel like I represent normalcy in some way.

Tina Fey

#53. For that to happen, growth has to be very strong. To get back to normalcy, we will have to have extended growth of more than 3 percent. That's not in the cards.

Joseph Stiglitz

#54. For children, parents are a yardstick for normalcy.

Upasana Saraf

#55. If we are looking for a soft and malleable God who will stay safely within the boundary limits of conventional religious normalcy in His participation and impact upon our lives, then we are looking for a God who is not the God of the Bible.

Barton Jahn

#56. Most actors make themselves unhappy by searching for their sanity, by insisting on their normalcy; it's a grave mistake.

Michael Shurtleff

#57. Luck, normalcy, fate ... none of those seemed to be on our side. Our very being together went against all the odds. All I knew was that something good had begun. A flame had been lit. And the whole universe was watching to see if it would be blown out.
All I could do was hold my breath. And wait.

Amy Plum

#58. Ads sell more than products. They sell values, they sell images. They sell concepts of love and sexuality, of success, and perhaps most important, of normalcy. To a great extent they tell us who we are and who we should be.

Jean Kilbourne

#59. Life goes on with fragile normalcy.

Sara Gruen

#60. He doesn't know where he is. He thinks this is his normal life. I don't have time to ruminate about how depressing it is that my brother can't tell the different between normalcy and eternal damnation.

Cynthia Hand

#61. Karen merely nodded a hello, feeling slightly apart despite the utter normalcy of the morning, feeling, for the first time, that she belonged to a secret, shameful society ruled by aberrant desire and behavior.

V.S. Kemanis

#62. In most marriages, lust and love become tempered by normalcy.

Kristan Higgins

#63. Then the time he had left was going to be spent making his wife laugh. Because try though he might, he couldn't shake the quiet dread that settled in the pit of his stomach that tonight was the last night of normalcy he had on this earth.

Jessica Scott

#64. Everyone has problems. Everyone has a shitty life. But people who embrace that and do something with the misery are seen as the abnormal ones. And the people who apply normalcy like a camouflage suit are seen as the normal ones.

Andersen Prunty

#65. God, normalcy wasn't overrated when you had a brain like mine.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#66. 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

#67. Palestinian children deserve the same right to be free in their own land as Israeli children in their land. A two-state solution will finally bring Israelis the security and normalcy to which they are entitled, and Palestinians the sovereignty and dignity they deserve.

Denis McDonough

#68. Disasters like Oklahoma City and 9/11 were time-limited. The children who were affected psychologically could go to a place of normalcy.

Irwin Redlener

#69. Above all, the normalcy of society's routines tells us that this way of life is normal. For many people, the most powerful enforcer of the habits of separation is money. Usually,

Charles Eisenstein

#70. After a war life catches desperately at passing hints of normalcy like vines entwining a hollow twig.

Chinua Achebe

#71. A massive rate of change is normalcy for America. What we need is planned change - Progress. We need Progress!

Bruce Sterling

#72. I knew what normalcy was, and I wasn't having it.

Gary Coleman

#73. People are people. Whatever happens, they make communities, struggle for normalcy. Even

Brandon Sanderson

#74. [ ... ] I think no one - human or otherwise - is perfect. If perfection is the standard for normalcy, we all fail.

Sylvain Reynard

#75. Possibly the only way to maintain some sort of resemblance of normalcy was by thinking about insignificant things. That way, it didn't feel like my life was crumbling apart like a pastry.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#76. Ever wonder why people are so determined to reach for white picket fences, supposed normalcy, a nuclear family? Well, try growing up without one.

Chuck Eddy

#77. If you would ask me at 15 years old if I would have traded prosthetics for flesh and bone legs, I wouldn't have hesitated for a second. I aspired to that kind of normalcy back then. But if you ask me today, I'm not so sure.

Aimee Mullins

#78. Normalcy to me is enjoying the simple things in life.

Atticus Shaffer

#79. The distance of the fighting created the illusion of normalcy, but the new rules resulted in an attitude shift that did not suit the Administration's plans. They were going for structure, control, for panic that produced submission - what

Tea Obreht

#80. I clench his hands to the point of pain. "Stay with me."
His pupils contract to pinpoints, dialate again rapidly, and then return to something resembling normalcy. "Always," he murmurs.

Suzanne Collins

#81. America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.

Warren G. Harding

#82. I get glimpses of the horror of normalcy. Each of these innocents on the street is engulfed by a terror of their own ordinariness. They would do anything to be unique.

Katherine Dunn

#83. Normalcy is not interesting.

Lindsay Lohan

#84. Normalcy was a majority concept, the standard of many and not the standard of just one man.

Richard Matheson

#85. ... Tell me, has anything odd happened to you recently?
What do you mean, odd?'
Unusual. Deviating from the customary. Something outside the usual parameters of normalcy. An occurrence of unprecedented weird.

Jasper Fforde

#86. Normalcy is the antithesis of evolution.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#87. Seth gave her that: a private space to believe in the illusion of normalcy.

Melissa Marr

#88. Don't tolerate me as different. Accept me as part of the spectrum of normalcy.

Ann Northrop

#89. In the business of war, the role of women is really to maintain normalcy and ensure that there is cultural continuity.

Lynn Nottage

#90. My 30 year attempt (and subsequent failure) to reach "normal" has brought me to ponder whether "normal" even exists, or if it is nothing more than delusional grandeur based in the sounds of those sweet sirens drawing my ship in all the wrong directions.

Dan Pearce

#91. Says you and your family. Sooner or later you're gonna realize that just cause a Turner thinks a thing is normal doesn't mean it is. Not at all.

Angela Flournoy

#92. Conventions are, indeed, all that shield us from the shivering void, though often they do so but poorly and desperately.

Robert Aickman

#93. Yeah. She'd manipulated the second most powerful vampire in town into taking her side against a psycho bitch-queen sorority girl. She'd talked rationally about putting people's brains into computers. This was a normal day. No wonder she was screwed up.

Rachel Caine

#94. It is all odd at first, and then it becomes normal - not because
it is normal, but because repetition uns the peculiar.

John Green

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

Aldous Huxley

#96. At the beginning of that interval a type-machine was a curiosity. The person who owned one was a curiosity, too. But now it is the other way about: the person who doesn't own one is a curiosity.

Mark Twain

#97. We're all pretty bizarre. Some of us are just better at hiding it, that's all.

John Hughes

#98. I'm sick and tired of having a forest and a torture chamber in my house... I want to have a nice quiet flat with ordinary doors and windows and a wife inside it, like anybody else!

Gaston Leroux

#99. Civilised life, you know, is based on a huge number of illusions in which we all collaborate willingly. The trouble is we forget after a while that they are illusions and we are deeply shocked when reality is torn down around us.

J.G. Ballard

#100. The ordinary lunatic is generally a harmless, isolated case; since everyone sees that something is wrong with him, he is quickly taken care of. But the unconscious infections of groups of so-called normal people are more subtle and far more dangerous.

C. G. Jung