Quotes About Normalcy

Queen songs are not about the life of a rock star - they tend to be about the lives of normal people, which is why I think the songs connect so much. We're very lucky that they seemingly connect with every generation.

Life on the road is very different from a normal, day to day life, and sometimes that surrealistic existence can have an effect on you, you tend to forget that's not really how things are supposed to be. But there comes a point where you have to pace yourself and find a place in your mind where you can be real.

It's about trying to step out of being patterned and closed off and reclusive, which I've always had a problem with. It's about attempting to be normal and just go out and be around other people and hang out. I have a tendency to sometimes be pretty closed off and not see people for long periods of time and not call anyone.

It's a difficult world for lots of child actors, and it's difficult to be a teenager under any circumstances. Add to that notoriety and fame, and things can go really wrong. But I had a terrific family and grew up very normal in Phoenix.

In fighting terror, you cannot let it interfere with the normal life of civilians in Israel.

Sleep resistance, bouts of insomnia, nightmares, night terrors, crawling into bed with parents in the middle of the night - all these are so common among children, it seems fair to call them 'normal.'

I think the right way to deal with terrorism is to carry on with normal life, like Britain used to when it was a more serious country.

It's always important not to fall for the narrative of the terrorists. If you want to fight for getting a normal life back, you also have to participate.

The difference between a normal person and an insane one is precisely that the normal person has all the diseases of the mind, while the madman has only one!

Being healthy consists of having the same disease as everyone else.

I consider myself an average man except for the fact that I consider myself an average man.

como dos personas normales o como dos personas que fingen ser normales y a fuerza de fingirlo de alguna manera lo son o llegan a serlo

She'd always had a short fuse but lately she was positively electric and could burst into flame anywhere, anytime. ... When she was out of the shower, dry and cool, she had one of those reprieves that came regularly - she felt perfectly normal, sane and in control. Then came the inevitable guilt . . .

For Kirsti, the soldiers were simply part of the landscape, something that had always been there, on every corner, as unimportant as lampposts, throughout her remembered life

This is how the world ends, I think, everything crazy yet people doing normal things.

No hay nada ridículo en la #Intimidad, no hay nada escatológico ni repudiable en ese lento fuego doméstico de sudor y de fiebre, de mocos y estornudos, de pedos y ronquidos.

Una de las cosas buenas que fui descubriendo con los años es que ser raro no es nada raro, contra lo que la palabra parece indicar. De hecho, lo verdaderamente raro es ser normal.

Stress is a form of suffering, but it is accepted as normal. And it is normal in our world.

Takich okresów nie tyle siÄ™ ?aÅ'owaÅ'o, ile siÄ™ je skreÅ›laÅ'o. I wydawaÅ'o mi siÄ™, ?e teraz jakaÅ› cz??? mnie - chora cz???? - zostaÅ'a skreÅ›lona. (...) ZahibernowaÅ'am siÄ™ i wegetowaÅ'am w postaci dawnego ja: upartego jak osioÅ', niekobiecego, nieracjonalnie skrytego. (...) Nie byÅ'am dziwolÄ…giem. ByÅ'am normalna.

He hadn't woken a day since my death when the day wasn't something to get through. But the truth was, the memorial service day was not the worst kind. At least it was honest. At least it was a day shaped around what they were so preoccupied by: my absence. Today he would not have to pretend he was getting back to normal—whatever normal was.

It is equally dangerous at either extreme - to have either an expanding concept of mental disorder that eliminates normal or to have an expanding concept of normal that eliminates mental disorder.

A ranting psychotic is far enough away from mean to be recognized as mentally sick by your aunt Tilly, but how do you decide when everyday anxiety or sadness is severe enough to be considered mental disorder? One thing does seem perfectly clear. On the statistical face of it, it is ridiculous to stretch disorder so elastically that the near average person can qualify. Shouldn't most people be normal?

Hernhutter, în?elept, îl aprob? ?i d?du drept exemplu existen?a uman?: nimeni nu în?elege nimic ?i tocmai de aceea o accept? ca pe un lucru firesc.

My other life keeps me calm and grounded and normal.