Quotes About Normalcy

There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.

heavy bleeding in the premenopausal years is in fact normal.

see, we been doing things wrong for so long now that it all starts to feel okay after a while, you know, like this is how it oughta be.

Each family functions in their own way, by rules reinvented daily. The strangeness of each of us is somehow accommodated so that there can be such a thing as family and we can all live for some time at least in the same house. Normal is what you know.

Maybe having schizophrenia is my big fuck-you to the status quo. Only, I guess at this point, being normal and well-adjusted would be, like, the biggest fuck-you of them all. So I guess I'll just try to shoot for that, if I can.

Conservatism should not be a party but the normal attitude of every decent man.

The psychiatrist considers only vulgar behavior sane.

AMANDA: I think very few people are completely normal really, deep down in their private lives.

But just because you can't see something doesn't mean it's not there. And just because you don't remember something doesn't mean you don't miss it. And just because you are used to something doesn't mean it's normal" -Ruby

It turns out that it takes courage simply to be a normal person at ease in the world among others.

why can't I do what others have done—ignore the obvious. Live a normal life. It's hard enough just to do that in this world.

Why can't I do what others have done - ignore the obvious. Live a normal life. It's hard enough just to do that in this world.

It was what you did when you resurfaced after a year undercover: You hooked your wagon to the repetitions of domesticity.

Florentynka wcale nie uwa?a?a si? za wariatk?. Ksi??yc prze?ladowa? j?, jak ka?dy normalny prze?ladowca. Ale której? nocy wydarzy?o si? co? dziwnego.

Adolescents never understand that the best way to avoid notice is to behave normally.

I think I'll just go take a shower," I said. It wasn't until Samuel stiffened that I remembered I'd just come out of the shower. So much for playing normal.

Everyone's got something. Not even just us, everyone we know. (...) Except maybe the indie kids. They're probably the most normal ones out there.

Bir düÅŸünün hele, bundan yüz y?l önce olan ya da böyle bir buluÅŸ konusu olan bir ÅŸey, bugün art?k bir Allah'?n kulunu bile heyecanland?ramayacak kadar s?radan hale geliyor.

Add the fact that we so-called normal people frequently allow other people and situations to control our emotions (and thereby our thinking and behavior), and the difference between us and them begins to blur.

As long as I am not hurting anyone, I refuse to be shamed for normal emotional responses like anger, sadness, fear and depression. I especially refuse to attack myself for how hard it is to completely eliminate the self-hate habit.

My strong opinion is that you should continue on with life as normally as you can, no matter what kind of tumor you have.