Quotes About Normalcy

I have never been normal about my body. It has always seemed to me a strange and foreign entity. I don't know that there was ever a time when I was not conscious of it. As far back as I can think, I was aware of my own corporeality, my physical imposition on space.

There is no right," she says. "There's the best you can do. And that's fine. That's normal.

No, normalcy is taken for granted until it's gone.

La vie n'est pas toujours (ou même jamais) rose, Il est beaucoup plus probable qu'elle soit ombragée par les problèmes, les inquiétudes et les difficultés. C'est tout à fait normal, et personne ne devrait s'en alarmer

A society which demands we be normal even as it drives us insane.

Be proud to act like a normal human being. Keep daylight hours, get a regular job, and mix in the company of people with a fixed sense of right and wrong.

I did not say how I was feeling to anyone. To say how I was feeling would lead to feeling more of what I was feeling. To act normal would be to feel a bit more normal. I acted normal.

if you see magic often enough it starts to look normal.

You mean everything to me. You mean more to me than I have the words to explain. Is it normal? Who gives a damn if it's normal? Fuck normal. You and I will never be normal people. If normal means I'm not with you, then I never want to be that man.

Suzanne is not a horrible person masquerading as a nice one, just an angry one pretending to be normal.

My childhood was so inconsistent that I never expected normalcy, and it's enough for me to be able to have time and space to be good to myself and the people around me. Children are nice, but I decided to save myself instead.

Have you taken the decision of war? Then, you are sick! Have you participated the war? Then, you are sick! Do you produce guns? Then, you are sick! Refuse all of them and be healthy, be human, be normal, be a real man!

Seth gave her that: a private space to believe in the illusion of normalcy.

When I came into office, people said, 'Billionaire? How do they live? What do they eat? How do they sleep?' Today, they see me on the subway coming uptown. A couple of people say hi, some people smile and nod. Some people just sleep. It's not an issue.

I'd like to be settled into somewhat of a normal life. Somewhat. I know it's never going to be completely normal.

On Being Sane in Insane Places

Serial killers generally present themselves as normal people to the rest of the community. They go to church, they take their children to school, visit restaurants and buy groceries just like everyone else. They are someone's son, someone's brother, someone's neighbour. I sometimes think of them as nice people who have this nasty habit of killing others.

Normal people are rarely original, but they are sometimes bizarre.

There's nothing wrong with your life because sometimes you feel lost or incomplete; this means you're "normal," growing, and exactly where you "should be" and all is well. You're not handicapped by your challenges and desires but blessed by them, even if they include missing a dearly beloved who was "ready" before you … you are blessed especially when you miss such a person, for the love you knew and still know.

Sometimes I really feel sorry for Mel - Her life would've been so much better if she'd fallen in love with someone normal. Instead she fell in love with me and had been paying for the mistake ever since.

I'm in trouble because I'm normal and slightly arrogant. A lot of people don't like themselves and I happen to be totally in love with myself.

The inconceivable had become the usual, the impossible possible, and the possible and the usual unthinkable.

in peacetime everyone actually wants to be mediocre and is terrified of being different.

There is a tendency in all of us to want to see schizophrenia...as somehow separate from ourselves. There is a certain comfort...in building a barrier that says 'schizophrenia' on one side and 'normal' on the other. The 'normals' often benevolently minister to the 'schizophrenic' ones and, in this effort to be helpful, often firm up the barrier, further isolating the schizophrenic person and family. This barrier is of our own making, not nature's act.