Normal Quotes

“I've always felt that misfits are far more interesting than normal folks.”
― Jen Turano, Diamond in the Rough

“Most people are, in the most ordinary sense, very limited. They pass their time, day after day, in idle, passive pursuits, just looking at things - at games, television, whatever. Or they fill the hours talking, mostly about nothing of significance - of comings and goings, of who is doing what, of the weather, of things forgotten almost as soon as they are mentioned. They have no aspirations for themselves beyond getting through another doing more or less what they did yesterday. They walk across the stage of life, leaving everything about as it was when they entered, achieving nothing, aspiring to nothing, having never a profound or even original thought... This is what is common, usual, typical, indeed normal. Relatively few rise above such a plodding existence.”
― Richard Taylor, Restoring Pride

“Pretty normal for a high-achiever to be shut out by superiors for various self-serving reasons. Keep achieving anyways.”
― Richie Norton

“Don’t worry about being normal. It’s an awful thing to aspire to.”
― Gary Janetti

“I’m not really sure I know any normal people.”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

“Each person must, on some level, take himself as the calibration point for normalcy, must assume that the room of his own mind is not, cannot be, entirely opaque to him.”
― Teju Cole, Open City

“Talking to Marcia about their engagement, he was almost able to look the other way and rush to embrace the security and predictability and contentment of a normal life lived in normal times.”
― Philip Roth, Nemesis

“The need to be normal is the predominant anxiety disorder in modern life.”
― Thomas Moore, Original Self: Living with Paradox and Originality

“If I'm going to pretend to be normal, I might as well commit to it fully. Nothing is more suspicious than something that's just a bit off.”
― Frank J. Fleming, Superego

“Forgetting about appointments has become a normal aspect of life for me.”
― Steven Magee

“his dick, for example, was just that. It wasn’t odd or typical. It just was, by god. And isn’t that nice?”
― Steve Almond, Which Brings Me to You

“President Trump taught me that lying to the world is a normal aspect of life in the USA.”
― Steven Magee

“You should be querying why you consider a violent society as being normal.”
― Steven Magee

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― Emilyann Allen (pseudonyms Emilyann Phoenix and Emilyann Girdner)

“I was never meant to be normal and neither were you. There's no such thing as normal anyway.”
― Emilyann Allen (pseudonyms Emilyann Phoenix and Emilyann Girdner)

“When you tolerate sin sooner than later it will become the norm in your life”
― John M. Sheehan

“Being normal is the reality and being real is the expectation”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“Madness is when people don't put "normal" in quotation marks”
― dilop

“I'm tired of seeing pain as the new normal.”
― Nitya Prakash

“Parmi les allures inédites de la vie, il y en a de deux sortes. Il y a celles qui se stabilisent dans de nouvelles constantes, mais dont la stabilité ne fera pas obstacle à leur nouveau dépassement éventuel. Ce sont des constantes normales à valeur propulsive. Elles sont vraiment normales par normativité. Il y a celles qui se stabiliseront sous forme de constantes que tout l'effort anxieux du vivant tendra à préserver de toute éventuelle perturbation. Ce sont bien encore de constantes normales, mais à valeur répulsive, exprimant la mort en elles de la normativité. En cela elles sont pathologiques, quoique normales tant que le vivant en vit.”
― Georges Canguilhem, The Normal and the Pathological

“Nous pouvons dire qu'en matière biologique, c'est le pathos qui conditionne le logos parce qu'il l'appelle. C'est l'anormal qui suscite l'intérêt théorique pour le normal. Des normes ne sont reconnues pour telles que dans des infractions. Des fonctions ne sont révélées que par leur ratés. La vie ne s'élève à la conscience et à la science d'elle-même que par l'inadaptation, l'échec et la douleur.”
― Georges Canguilhem, The Normal and the Pathological

“Violence is not normal, it is taught, it is a symptom of insanity.”
― Mango Wodzak, The Eden Fruitarian Guidebook

“We sometimes use a friend to prevent or stop ourselves from feeling abnormal (or crazy) for liking or enjoying something (or some of the things) that we like or enjoy.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, On Friendship: A Satirical Essay

“It was a shame Christians had become so normal.”
― Shane Claiborne, The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

“Normal is the recession of our hopes and dreams”
― Natalie Gibson

“I wondered if other people had to work so hard to try and seem normal all of the time.”
― Sara Hosey, Iphigenia Murphy

“Scientific fraud is a normal aspect of government.”
― Steven Magee

“...diplomacy, as well as being the art of waiting, was also the art of keeping up a facade of normality whatever the circumstances.... The ambassador praised his son's determination, drew the conversation to a close with a smile, and decided to give him another month; after all, diplomacy is also the art of postponing decisions until the problems resolve themselves.”
― Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

“Du musst einfach dranbleiben,' sagte er. 'Es sollte kein Zeitvertreib sein und keine Pflicht und nichts Ungewöhnliches. Es sollte das Normalste auf der Welt für dich sein.”
― Elizabeth Jane Howard, Marking Time

“Shout-out to everyone who won't be going back to "normal"! Those who will refuse to allow the nonsense they used to. Those who will set new healthy standards. Those who will let go, forgive, and move on. Those who will finally act upon their goals and dreams. Those who will never again shrink themselves for those who refuse to grow. Those who will fall back in love with life. Those who will come out of this chaos stronger and more baddasss than ever!”
― Steve Maraboli