Top 100 Quotes About Normality
#3. That's what art is: escaping everyday normality, which wants to eat you alive.
Stefano Benni
#4. Almost everyone prefers normality because normality brings comfort and security. But when you think about it, normality hinders the reason why you are on this earth.
Euginia Herlihy
#5. Solitude, which is held to be cause of eccentricity, in fact imposes excessive normality, and least in public ... [p. 7]
Shirley Hazzard
#6. I've found constancy and balance between creativity and normality.
Julian Lennon
#7. There is a subconscious way of taking violence as a way of expression, as a normality, and it has a lot of effects in the youth in the way they absorb education and what they hope to get out of life.
Salma Hayek
#8. [Monty] talks about Fritz Perls and the Gestalt theory. The here and now is the only time that exists. And being yourself. Not accepting yourself, not taking yourself for granted. Being yourself. Your self. Monty defines 'normality' as a contententment with who you are.
Antony Sher
#9. It's really important to take time for yourself because if you don't know what it is like to be a real person and spend time with a sense of normality, how can you play normal people in films?
Douglas Booth
#10. The normality of the house terrified her: the gleaming surfaces, the tidiness, the homey touches, the sense that a person lived here who might walk in daylight on any street and pass for human in spite of the atrocities that he had committed.
Dean Koontz
#11. Now I am writing this diary in English, which for me is not the language of intimacy or love, but an attempt at distance and sanity, a means of recalling normality.
Jasmina Tesanovic
#12. The red carpet is kind of a surreal experience. There's nothing normal about it, so for me the most important thing is to maintain some normality right until the point you get out of the car.
Samantha Barks
#13. Between normality and madness, which are basically the same thing, there exists an intermediary stage: it is called "being different." And people were becoming more and more afraid of "being different.
Paulo Coelho
#14. Who wouldn't like to give up normal life? I mean, normal life, you know, is the second worst thing to death itself. I think normality is something that makes everything very static, and I try to make my days, my daily routines, as uneven and rich as possible.
Vik Muniz
#15. To be entranced, to be driven, to be obsessed, to be under the spell of an emerging, not quite fully 'comprehended' narrative
this is the greatest happiness of the writer's life even as it burns us out and exhausts us, unfitting us for the placid contours of 'normality.
Joyce Carol Oates
#16. We are in a world that is quite extremist and extremism makes more noise. Normality does not sell.
Vicente Del Bosque
#17. A cup of tea would restore my normality.
[Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Screenplay]
Douglas Adams
#18. We are now cruising at a level of two to the power of twenty-five thousand to one against and falling, and we will be restoring normality just as soon as we are sure what is normal anyway.
Douglas Adams
#19. Let's all sign petitions to make Earthships and organic home gardens the normality.
Syesha Mercado
#20. My best-kept secret is that I didn't reject normality. Normality rejected me.
Maggie Young
#21. There is no such thing as a normal period of history. Normality is a fiction of economic textbooks.
Joan Robinson
#22. We have a name for the sum of grievances and compromises, this sheer normality of life lived among other people. We call it civilization. Culture, society, the workaday interactions of ordinary time.
Joseph Bottum
#23. I'm so far from everything. From normality. From light. From everything I want to be.
John Fowles
#24. If civilization ever achieves a higher standard of what constitutes normality, it will have been the neurotic who led the way.
Nancy Hale
#25. Sane is the insanity most people call normality, put forth by society.
Erik Till
#26. It's not a good idea to define the boundaries of normality by tearing apart people who are outside of it.
Jon Ronson
#27. Sanity is surely not about normality in the statistical sense: it is about an eternal and natural idea of the healthy personality - which indeed may be a rare achievement.
Michael Leunig
#28. The dynamic inter-linkage of art forms in orature is thus seen as reflecting a Weltanschauung that assumes the normality of the connection between nature, nurture, supernatural, and supernurtural. I
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
#29. One can't be a killer every moment of one's life. Some humanity is going to show itself now and then, some hunger for normality, no matter what you do.
Anne Rice
#30. She disinterred the wickedness in normality, cataloguing the ways conformity and repression tip into psychosis, persecution, and paranoia, into cruelty and its masochistic, injury-cherishing twin. Like
Shirley Jackson
#31. Do soldiers feel this, when they get back from a war? The utter weirdness of utter normality.
David Mitchell
#32. You're his normality. You're a part of him, and he is a part of you. That's what makes this frightening, but that's what makes it right.
Becky Wicks
#33. What does all this mean finally, I kept asking like a college kid. Why does it make me want to cry? Maybe it's that we are all outsiders, we are all making our own unusual way through a wilderness of
normality that is just a myth.
Anne Rice
#34. It seemed that other people's "normality" was the road to my insanity
Tony Attwood
#35. Normality wasn't in the days I'd left behind me: it was only to be found in whatever fortune placed in my path each morning.
Maria Duenas
#36. The human mind isn't a terribly logical or consistent place. Most people, given the choice to face a hideous or terrifying truth or to conveniently avoid it, choose the convenience and peace of normality. That doesn't make them strong or weak people, or good or bad people. It just makes them people.
Jim Butcher
#37. Throughout my entire life, I constantly tried to fight normality. I hate it. I hate the idea of it. I hate routine. I hate anything that feels remotely regular or right.
Tom Odell
#38. The healthy being craves an occasional wildness, a jolt from normality, a sharpening of the edge of appetite, his own little festival of Saturnalia, a brief excursion from his way of life.
Robert Morrison MacIver
#39. When I was a teenager, I thought nothing would ever happen to me because my childhood was so normal. I had this complex of normality.
Audrey Tautou
#40. 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
#41. Normality may lie in being a selectively deaf self-righteous victim of your own cognitive dissonance...but then again...who wants to be an open minded but self-doubting fence-sitter paralyzed by internal conflict? life eh?
Tweedy Peanut
#42. They cultivated normality till it stood out of them all over in knobs, like the muscles upon professional strong men, and scarcely looked normal at all. And they talked interminably and loudly. From their bouncing mental health ordinary ill-balanced mortals shrank in alarm.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#43. Normality is an illusion, created by a conservative culture to control behaviour
Merlyn Gabriel Miller
#44. We are defining the boundaries of normality by tearing apart the people outside it.
Jon Ronson
#45. We need international support so that our people live a life of normality, of dignity, of liberty and freedom. I hope that our cry for freedom may be heard.
Mahmoud Abbas
#47. Normality is the ability to learn by experience, to be flexible, and to adapt to a changing environment.
Lawrence S. Kubie
#50. Fantasy isn't just a jolly escape: It's an escape, but into something far more extreme than reality, or normality. It's where things are more beautiful and more wondrous and more terrifying. You move into a world of conflicting extremes.
Terry Gilliam
#51. Normality wasn't normal. It couldn't be. If normality were normal, everybody could leave it alone. They could sit back and let normality manifest itself.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#52. There is no normality in life. Having two houses means that we can get out of each other's hair - which, let's face it, we've both got a lot of
Helena Bonham Carter
#53. This is what we have all come to Cannes for: for something different, experimental, a tilting at windmills, a great big pole-vault over the barrier of normality by someone who feels that the possibilities of cinema have not been exhausted by conventional realist drama.
Peter Bradshaw
#54. The psychopath discards his ex-lovers with a degree of vitriol and hatred that astonishes his victims and exceeds any boundaries of normality.
Claudia Moscovici
#55. I suggest we bring some normality back to this country and say if you are carrying a knife, there must be zero tolerance. If it was up to me, everyone caught with a knife would get an automatic ten year sentence.
Simon Cowell
#56. The great triumph of the Sixties was to dramatize just how arbitrary and constructed the seeming normality of the Fifties had been. We rose up from our maple-wood twin beds and fell onto the great squishy, heated water bed of the Sixties.
Edmund White
#57. Most people like normality because they feel safe and comfortable around it.
Euginia Herlihy
#58. Fear beyond rational limits forces people to cling to normality
Hiroya Oku
#59. Don't go to men who are willing to kill themselves driving in circles looking for normality.
James Hunt
#60. The hardest work most of us do is maintaining the appearance of normality.
Harry Shearer
#61. There are four types: the cretin, the imbecile, the stupid and the mad. Normality is a balanced mixture of all four.
Umberto Eco
#62. In a world turned upside-down, where everything was wrong, bizarre, you could at least look up at the sky and see normality. Stars that shone regardless of who won a civil war, or who should or should not be a president. Their light was billions of years old. They didn't have a care ...
Alex Scarrow
#63. If you look at the whole life of the planet, we - you know, Man - has only been around for a few blinks of an eye. So if the infection wipes us all out, that is a return to normality.
Alex Garland
#64. [ ... ] extremes - whether good or bad - don't fit into society's definition of normality
Marilyn Manson
#66. But I was strong enough. I made it through the misery, until misery became normality. I find it ironic that when I finally became okay with the life I created inside 6E - that is when I ended up leaving it.
Alessandra Torre
#67. The tea seemed to be making things better. It was a hot drink made of leaves, used in times of crisis as a means of restoring normality.
Matt Haig
#68. The best shows have a clear idea of what they want to achieve, where the performers have the ability to disrupt normality and engage directly with audiences of all ages. A company who can do just that (apparently effortlessly) is dotComedy.
Lyn Gardner
#69. There's something in us that lives just beyond our normality - and I think we've all got a song in us. If only we could master that tiny muscle and make it sound listenable.
Tamsin Greig
#70. Without deviance from normality, there can be no progress.
Frank Zappa
#71. Normality is what weak people call living, I call it death
Greg Plitt
#72. We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem.
Douglas Adams
#73. For me it was a normality having a father who was a world champion. I grew up with that, so it was never extra pressure. And I've never felt the need to emerge from his shadow.
Nico Rosberg
#74. I wanted to reject it all because I was sick of being perfect. I was so bored with normality and dreams of poster boys and tabloid covers.
J. Merridew
#75. The great thing about my two lives is I love them both. I'm very ambitious and nothing gets in the way of me practising and concentrating on winning golf tournaments. But then I come home and get back to normality.
Rory McIlroy
#76. Normality is the Great Neurosis of civilization.
Tom Robbins
#77. We need to strive for more than normality because normality brings lack of fruitfulness, lack of growth, lack of increase and lack of success.
Euginia Herlihy
#78. Every region should retain representative samples of its original or wilderness condition, to serve science as a sample of normality. Just as doctors must study healthy people to understand disease, so must the land sciences study the wilderness to understand disorders of the land-mechanism.
Aldo Leopold
#79. The sound of the kettle boiling was in itself the sound of normality, of reason, the sound of a fight back against the sadness of things.
Alexander McCall Smith
#80. Jack missed the normality of merely reading the paper.
Tom Clancy
#81. The trick is the paradox - turning your story inside out. Now if it is something that appears to be of total normality and then suddenly turns inside out and is a different thing all together then that's fun to write.
Nigel Kneale
#82. Nothing will be healed in this kitchen. Some griefs can never be put right ... She only wants a tide of normality to wash in and cover everything again.
Anthony Doerr
#83. She had drawn strength from everyone else's weakness, hoping that her adrenaline-fueled bravery would carry her safely back to normality,
Robert Galbraith
#84. The elegant jump from malicious gossip to compliment, seemed to me so very successful that I thought of adult normality precisely as an art of that type.
Elena Ferrante
#85. Love brings the high and concealed characteristics of the lover into the light
what is rare and exceptional in him: to that extent it easily deceives regarding his normality.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#87. This is what travelers discover: that when you sever the links of normality and its claims, when you break off from the quotidian, it is the teapots that truly shock.
Cynthia Ozick
#88. I am a woman. Every artist is a woman and should have a taste for other women. Artists who are homosexual cannot be true artists because they like men, and since they themselves are women they are reverting to normality.
Pablo Picasso
#89. Sometimes these flashes of normality come at me from the side, like ambushes. The ordinary, the usual, a reminder, like a kick.
Margaret Atwood
#90. And normality was precisely the most fearful part of that infinite war: nothing ever happened.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#91. I want you to be happy. I want to do my job so that you can move past this divorce and have a chance at normality.
Alessandra Torre
#92. According to Montaigne, it was the oppressive notion that we had complete mental control over our bodies, and the horror of departing from this portrait of normality, that had left the man unable to perform sexually.
Alain De Botton
#93. The media chooses to portray the most extreme and violent aspects of a place. I do the opposite and portray the normality.
Brandon Stanton
#94. The thoughts that arise because of 'depression' or 'elevation' are all wrong thoughts. The thoughts that arise in 'normality' are 'correct'.
Dada Bhagwan
#95. In the context of our present pervasive madness that we call normality, sanity, freedom, all our frames of reference are ambiguous and equivocal.
R.D. Laing
#96. You're a strange kind of boy," said Achilles. "I was not tested for normality before I was entrusted with this mission," said Suriyawong. "But I have no doubt that I would fail such a test.
Orson Scott Card
#97. Love reveals its insanity by its refusal to acknowledge the inherent NORMALITY of the loved one
Alain De Botton
#99. There are a lot of factors in the life of an F1 driver which can combine to make you believe that you are somehow above normality. I think that is a mistake to start believing that. But, at the same time, it is important to be confident.
Damon Hill
#100. Being a famous writer is a little like being a tall dwarf. You're on the edge of normality.
John Updike
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