Quotes About Normalcy

The world was going on as usual. All the time she was writing the world had continued.

When you grow up--and from the look of things, you have awhile--but you learn things never go back to normal simply because everyone's sorry. Sorry is ridiculous.

The MacKinnons were always new, always almost just like everyone else. Always next door to normal. It was like growing up in the witness protection program without changing your name.

It's no more normal to be a bank-manager or a bus-conductor, than to be Baudelaire or Genghis Khan,' Moreland had once remarked. 'It just happens there are more of the former types.

He has gone, Mamma,' she said, as she entered the breakfast-room. 'And now we'll go back to our work-a-day ways. It has been all Sunday for me the last six weeks.

Who (people from her other life) didn't know how much work it could be to make people think you you were normal.

Als je jong bent, denk je dat er normale mensen bestaan, maar dat jij de pech hebt ze niet te kennen. Later kom je erachter dat dat onzin is, dat er geen normale mensen bestaan. Er bestaan alleen patiënten. Sommige patiënten weten zich staande te houden ten koste van andere patiënten en die noemen we daarom geen patiënten. Die noemen we geslaagd

Except, what is normal at any given time? We change just as the seasons change, and each spring brings new growth. So nothing is ever quite the same. I realize now that what I wanted was comfort, but that, too, does not often come with growth and change.

It would seem more appropriate not to speak of degeneration: (1) Where there are not many marked deviations from the normal; (2) where the capacity for working and living do not in general appear markedly impaired

La vida sexual actual de los neuróticos obsesivos puede parecer muchas veces, a un observador superficial, absolutamente normal, pues ofrece frecuentemente menos factores patógenos y menos anormalidades que la de nuestro paciente.

If I behave as though this is a completely normal situation, then maybe it will be ...

L.A. can be very superficial, and it's hard to meet cool people here. I try to stay away from the glitzy side of the business and have a normal life as much as possible. I keep to myself.

I get recognised sometimes. But I just live my life. I get on the bus, I get on the subway, it's not a problem.

Sane people did what their neighbours did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.

I have done everything in my life very normally. And marriage is definitely there on my agendas in life. But I don't know when will it happen.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

Everyone is weird. Some people just try to act normal.

It is going to be too easy for things to start feeling normal—especially if you are someone who is not directly impacted by his actions. So keep reminding yourself: This is not normal. Write it on a Post-It note and stick it on your refrigerator, hire a skywriter once a month, tattoo it on your ass. Because a Klan-backed misogynist internet troll is going to be delivering the next State of the Union address. And that is not normal. It is fucked up.

Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.

It is a mistake to think that early in a fascist shift you see the profile of barbed wire against the sky. In the early days, things look normal on the surface:

You know, one of the most shocking things about it is to realize how easily we have lost a world that seemed so safe and certain." She was quite right. It was that simplicity that seemed somehow to be the nucleus of the shock. From very familiarity one forgets all the forces which keep the balance, and thinks of security as normal. It is not.

Like all parents she is dichotomous, what she really wants is a child genius who is perfectly normal.

Despite all the labels, in most ways I'm really not different from anyone else. I guess if you had to label me, you could say I'm like the girl next door. I'm like the girl a few doors down.

what's normal, she said. adults are all just weird in different ways.