Quotes About Normalcy

It was normal to us, like having a camera or seeing Mum and Dad play live - what you grow up with is normal to you. When you get a bit older and go to school, and see what other peoples families are like, then you start comparing it to your life.

The world is absurd. Ugly absurd. To repair ugly absurdity, you can't just be normal. You need an alternative absurdity. A beautiful absurdity. We call it 'divine madness'.

That man is … odd," I dared say to William. "He is, or has been, in many ways a great man. But for this very reason he is odd. It is only petty men who seem normal. Ubertino

Races improve the race, and all these games lead fortunately to the death of the best, allowing mankind to continue its existence serenely with normal protagonists, of average achievement.

È, o è stato, per molti aspetti, un grande uomo. Ma proprio per questo è strano. Sono solo gli uomini piccoli che sembrano normali.

He is, or has been, in many ways a great man. But for this very reason he is odd. It is only petty men who seem normal.

So that was how they would do it, merge back into the driving lane after a blown tire. They would say ordinary things and pretend none of it had happened. Until the next time.

When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl.

I've been under contract since I was 18 and it's all I've ever known. To me, I'm NOT different from anyone else other than the way I make a living.

We are real people with real feelings and we're not evil or mean. Take Ron for instance, he is one of the nicest guys you could ever meet and if you talked to him you'd see that instantly. I mean the guy is just super smart and super sweet and nice but nobody wants to talk about how goddamn normal we all are. We raise our kids and love our families and get our mail and wash our cars and do everything else that you or your wife do. It's really not as far out as people think.

Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years.

After the week she'd had, she wanted to go to the cafe and sink into a couch, gossip and laugh and sketch and drink tea and make up for lost normal.

Look, Simon, Luke thinks you should tell your mom. You can't hide it from her forever." "I can damn well try." "Think about Luke," she said desperately. "You can still live a normal life." "And what about us? Do you want a vampire boyfriend?" He laughed bitterly. "Because I foresee many romantic picnics in our future. You, drinking a virgin pina colada. Me, drinking the blood of a virgin.

He wondered if normalcy was something, like vision or silence, you didn't realize was precious until you lost it.

Now that the real and the imagined had collided, he wondered if she, like he, longed for the past, for the normal. He wondered if normalcy was something, like vision or silence, you didn't realize was precious until you lost it.

One of the things he loved about Clary was how easily caught up in her imagination she was, how easily she could wall herself away in illusory worlds of curses and princes and destiny and magic. Once he had been able to do the same... Now that the real and the imagined had collided, he wondered if she, like he, longed for the past, for the normal. He wondered if normalcy was something, like a vision or silence, you didn't realize it was precious until you lost it.

Tracy looked at me with affectionate pity. "You feel alive. Regular people feel dead." "I have new batteries in.

I live very normally, I go out with my friends, we go to the movies, I queue, we go to restaurants.

How do you gauge normal? To do so, you'd have to know how everybody else lives.

I have no idea if how I feel is what other people would call okay. I'm just the way I've always been.

How would I even know that, Lucas? I have no idea if how I feel is what other people would call okay. I'm just the way I've always been.

Everybody gets depressed; it's totally normal.

Il confine che separa i matti dai normali ci sembra netto, consistente, difficile da valicare. Invece è sottilissimo e in alcuni punti - in alcuni momenti - sfuma senza che ce ne accorgiamo. Ci troviamo nel territorio dei pazzi senza capire com'è successo - e del resto i pazzi lo sanno di essere da quelle parti?

Aos olhos da autoridade - e, talvez, está tenha razão - nada se assemelha melhor ao terrorista que o homem comum.