Quotes About Abnormality

There are no normal people—just look at your relatives,

He's one fry short of a Happy Meal.

the world is full of peculiar

I think that something needs to be weird in order to have a real beauty.

It wasn't until school that we realised that we were abnormal.

Everything's weird if you stare at it.

There is a little of everything, apparently, in nature, and freaks are common.

and the inexplicable prevalence of supernumerary testicles in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania.

Variety is precious when it expresses nature more richly by developing various aspects of it; but the variety that consists in producing cripples and abortions instead of normal human beings has nothing to commend it to the lover of mankind.

It would seem more appropriate not to speak of degeneration: (1) Where there are not many marked deviations from the normal; (2) where the capacity for working and living do not in general appear markedly impaired

La vida sexual actual de los neuróticos obsesivos puede parecer muchas veces, a un observador superficial, absolutamente normal, pues ofrece frecuentemente menos factores patógenos y menos anormalidades que la de nuestro paciente.

what's normal, she said. adults are all just weird in different ways.

Every anomaly seduces us, Life in the first place, that anomaly par excellence.

Împ?r?it? deopotriv?, for?a omeneasc? produce pro?ti sau mediocritate pretudindeni; inegal? îns?, d? na?tere acestor ciud??enii c?rora li se d? numele de "geniu" ?i care, dac? ar putea fi v?zute cu ochii, ar p?rea ni?te diformit??i.

SATAN'S LETTER This is a strange place, and extraordinary place, and interesting. There is nothing resembling it at home. The people are all insane, the other animals are all insane, the earth is insane, Nature itself is insane.

So what's interesting? It ain't like he

On the surface, these stories of correction might seem different, but really, at their core, they are all the same. To be abnormal is to be delegitimized as a full human being, and to be made normal through remediation and intervention hurts. When a human being is pathologized, they become less than human, and then we humans do terrible things.

suggestion: anomaly is a characteristic of the real. Whatever

People are strange

rubbing his chin, "as Nicolas Cage put it in Con Air, 'On any other day, that might seem strange.

I was too weird, even for the weirdos.

Cats with a serious marble deficiency.

I could not write about 'ordinary people' because I am not in the least interested in them.

I have an odd craving to whisper about those few frightful hours in that ill-rumoured and evilly shadowed seaport of death and blasphemous abnormality.