Quotes About Aberration

Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.

Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself and have never, in any case, regarded the pursuit of happiness as anything other than an aberration of the human spirit.

Empress Messalina has become as synonymous with nymphomania as has the Emperor Caligula with cruelty. Several of the Caesars, most notably Eliogabalus, were almost certainly polymorphously perverse; that is, any sexual aberration was automatically attractive to them, and the more unacceptable an activity might be, the more it therefore appealed.

We raided the lab. Unsure of exactly what the medical needs of a profane aberration might be

inability is not the result of your primitiveness. Quite the opposite: it's a result of egotism and a conviction in your own perfection. Anything that is more perfect than you must be a repulsive aberration. And repulsive aberrations are consigned to myths, for sociological reasons.

Anything that is more perfect than you must be a repulsive aberration. And repulsive aberrations are consigned to myths, for sociological reasons.

We tend to dismiss things we don't particularly like, or that we find disturbing, as aberrations.

No weird cultural aberration produced Nazism. No intellectual lunatic fringe miraculously overwhelmed a civilized country. It is modern philosophy—not some peripheral aspect of it, but the most central of its mainstreams—which turned the Germans into a nation of killers. The land of poets and philosophers was brought down by its poets and philosophers.

I want my chicken fried, gravy on my steak, and I want my green beans cooked and my tomatoes served raw. Too many fancy restaurants serve their green beans raw and then they cook their tomatoes - and give you some sort of hard, dark bread with it. This is an unholy aberration I cannot abide.

You're aberrated in one way, he said to Will. I'm aberrated in another. A schizoid (isn't that what you are?) and, from the other side of the world, a paranoid. Both of us victims of the same twentieth-century plague. Not the Black Death, this time; the Grey Life.

Crime, like war, is an aberration of creation.

For love, as he knew it, was an aberration, a form of temporary insanity, a shortlived state of autosuggestion. Love was a state which a wise man would prudently avoid.

People are subject to moods, to temptations and fears, lethargy and aberration and ignorance, and the staunchest qualities shift under the stresses and strains of daily life.

Men cannot abandon their religious faith without a kind of aberration of intellect and a sort of violent distortion of their true nature; they are invincibly brought back to more pious sentiments. Unbelief is an accident, and faith is the only permanent state of mankind.

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

His act was rather that of a harmless lunatic than an enemy. We were not so new to the country as not to know that the solitary life of many a plainsman had a tendency to develop eccentricities of conduct and character not always easily distinguishable from mental aberration. A man is like a tree: in a forest of his fellows he will grow as straight as his generic and individual nature permits; alone, in the open, he yields to the deforming stresses and tortions that environ him.

The girl's pretty little-girl face had deformed, lips stretching wide, becoming like the mouth of a flukeworm, a ragged pink hole encircled with teeth going all the way down her gullet. Her tongue was black, and her breath stank of old meat.

that wasn't mere beauty, but an aberration of heaven

A weird twist in the fabric of the universe

in the despair of routine any aberration is a radiant signal.

But in the despair of routine any aberration is a radiant signal.

out·li·er -,l()r noun 1: something that is situated away from or classed differently from a main or related body 2: a statistical

Outlier (noun): 1. Something that is situated away from, or classed differently from, a main or related body. 2. A statistical observation that is markedly different in value from the others of the sample.

The outlier, in the end, is not an outlier at all.