Quotes About Abnormality

The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. . .they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society. Their perfect adjustment to that abnormal society is a measure of their mental sickness. These millions of abnormally normal people, living without fuss in a society to which, if they were fully human beings, they ought not to be adjusted.

There is no normality in life.

If you are normal, I intend to be a freak for the rest of my life.

judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores. The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person

inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores. The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person, and so it came about that in college I was unjustly accused of being a politician, because I was privy to the secret griefs of wild

But none of these drugs had been developed after scientists had identified any disease process or brain abnormality that might have been causing these symptoms.

Lo que llamamos locura es la descostumbre del pensamiento de los otros.

excitedly that the reason he was calling was that he'd found another patient in the ER, named Lynn Anne Lucas, who had the same abnormal density pattern he'd seen on the Marino film. He told Michaels that he had not been able to follow up on Marino, but was going to get definitive films in the morning. He added that the computer had actually asked him to tell it what the abnormal density changes were. "The Goddamn thing wants to learn!

But weirdness is relative in the territory occupied by the mentally deranged.

being crazy is a job qualification.

To live in Metropolis was to know that the exceptional was as commonplace as diet soda, that abnormality was the popcorn norm.

It was an age of freaks, monsters, and grotesques. All the world was misshapen in marvelous and malevolent ways.

I wish now that I had known this was weird.

That many if not most people...who want fresh leafy greens in January buy them at the supermarket after they've been bleached and plastic-bag shipped from California or beyond is not a tribute to modern technology; it's an unprecedented abdication of personal responsibility and a ubiquitous benchmark of abnormality.

In the country of the mad, the sane man is crazy.

I think the world is a place for oddballs and freaks. I'm only interested in oddballs and freaks as characters.

I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.

We are all insane. But how do you distinguish sanity from insanity, how do you diagnose abnormality in this new world?

These kids just keep getting weirder and weirder.

out·li·er -,l()r noun 1: something that is situated away from or classed differently from a main or related body

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.

Many strange things happen in this world

It kills me how these days everyone has clinical justification for their strangeness.

The size of my head though is pretty abnormal.