Quotes About Normalcy

I wouldn't trade the childhood we had because, A, It was normal to me, even though, in hindsight, it's not normal. It felt normal, and I think we maintained a pretty normal healthy attitude towards what we did. And B, I just wouldn't trade it, the experience that we had and the growth we've had.

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.

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.

The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy.

recuerdo de los seres normales, son brevísimos y casi inexistentes para quien los prevé y solamente los vive.

I am not weird!" I said. "I'm just differently normal.

Is anyone human actually normal? I'm beginning to think being normal is actually abnormal.

I seek no longer to be a 'famous' person, and instead I wish to live a 'normal' life.

It's what I love about what I do and the life that I'm able to have and be able to just be so normal one day and be here the next...I feel so lucky to be able to do what I do.

No one mentioned his(Bailey's) absence as if things were as they should be and always were.

Don't complicate grief. It's not abnormal. There isn't a right way to grieve. Becoming aware of a feeling neutralizes that emotion. That feeling disappears and another one takes its place.

I have this colored friend Betty well, I never thought about it one way or the other until one day I went over her house for the first time and her father opened the door and I was surprized to see he was colored. Because, to me I was so used to her she always looked normal. Lazy Mary

I'm actually a very simple person. A very normal man.

I try to act normal. Unfortunately I can do multiple different impressions of normal, and I can't figure out the appropriate one for the moment. I'm dangerously close to simply having to "be myself".

Tammy said, "It's all just a matter of being exhausted with whatever's your normal. Over there, the Palestinians launch rockets and become suicide bombers—over here we just OD.

There is nothing wrong with being a woman, and doing ordinary things. Sometimes small deeds can show big ideas.

Love grows and changes every day. And it isn't like some thunderbolt from the sky, instantly transforming you into a different man. I know Benedict says it was that way for him, and that's just lovely, but you know, Benedict is not normal." Colin very much wanted to take that bait, but he just couldn't summon the energy.

I'm not the kind of guy that inspires madness in people.

She figured that any day now she was going to start feeling the simple composure of normalcy that Jane Austen's heroines always sought to maintain, the state described in those days as "countenance," and later as "being cool.

Non, il n'avait jamais pensé qu'il pût être un monstre et ne se croyait pas différent des autres hommes qui, selon lui, étaient tous des fous dès qu'ils se trouvaient seuls avec eux-mêmes et hors du contrôle d'autrui.

Ordinary life did not stop just because kings rose and fell, Mosca realized. People adapted. If the world turned upside down, everyone ran and hid in their houses, but a very short while later, if all seemed quiet, they came out again and started selling each other potatoes.

It's hard enough to figure out how to live ... without worrying about what the hell's normal.

What Boo Rdley did might seem peculiar to us but it did not seem peculiar to him.

if it's cool you're after, then you're knock-knock-knocking on the wrong door. My maximum ambition is to make it to normal.