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Quotes About Aberration

Rape is no excess, no aberration, no accident, no mistake--it embodies sexuality as the the culture defines it.
~ Andrea Dworkin
I've done every other thing in life except intimacy. That's the aberration, the thing I've never had.
~ Kevin Sessums
I think overall the majority of people who are practicing it as a subject are following the right line. For the aberration, don't blame yoga or the whole community of yogis
~ B.K.S. Iyengar
thinking about the uneven quality of time—the way it was almost always so empty, and then with no warning came a few days that felt so dense and alive and real that it seemed indisputable that that was what life was, that its real nature had finally been revealed. But then time passed and unthinkably grew dead again, and it turned out that that fullness had been an aberration and might never come back.
~ Elif Batuman
The thing that doesn't fit is the thing that's the most interesting: the part that doesn't go according to what you expected.
~ Richard P. Feynman
Evil is an aberration of personality. Often ingrained in the mind at birth.
~ Ruskin Bond
He's humanoid, he's hominid, he's an aberration, he's abominable; he'd be legendary, if there were anyone left to relate legends.
~ Margaret Atwood
It is almost impossible to describe happiness,because at the time it feels entirely natural as if all the r est of your life has been the aberration; only in retrospect does it swim into focus as the rare and precious thing it is.
~ Margaret George
The pertinent bias here is that these common pain syndromes must be the result of structural abnormalities of the spine or chemically or mechanically induced deficiencies of muscle. Of equal importance is another bias held by conventional medicine that emotions do not induce physiologic change. Experience with TMS contradicts both biases. The disorder is a benign (though painful) physiologic aberration of soft tissue (not the spine), and it is caused
~ John E. Sarno
The pertinent bias here is that these common pain syndromes must be the result of structural abnormalities of the spine or chemically or mechanically induced deficiencies of muscle. Of equal importance is another bias held by conventional medicine that emotions do not induce physiologic change. Experience with TMS contradicts both biases. The disorder is a benign (though painful) physiologic aberration of soft tissue (not the spine), and it is caused by an emotional process.
~ John E. Sarno
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.
~ John Grierson
I kept thinking about the uneven quality of time--the way it was almost always so empty, and then with no warning came a few days that felt so dense and alive and real that it seemed indisputable that that was what life was, that its real nature had finally been revealed. But then time passed and unthinkably grew dead again, and it turned out that that fullness had been an aberration and might never come back.
~ Elif Batuman
The conventional use of words and of narrative structure is deliberately subverted in decadent fiction; language deviates from the established norms in an attempt to reproduce pathology on a textual level. With its emphasis on aberration and artifice, the decadents' approach to the language of fiction frequently leans towards the baroque and the obscure.
~ Asti Hustvedt
The evidence is confused with mysticism—perhaps the prime aberration of the human mind.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
mysticism –perhaps the main aberration of the human mind.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
It is always the exception that sets the rule.
~ Nadina Boun
X maintains we are at the end of a "cosmic cycle" and that soon everything will fall apart. And he does not doubt this for one moment. At the same time, he is the father of a--numerous--family. With certitudes like his, what aberration has deluded him into bringing into a doomed world one child after the next? If we foresee the End, if we are sure it will be coming soon, if we even anticipate it, better to do so alone. One does not procreate on Patmos.
~ Emil M. Cioran
Fascism has nothing to do with capitalism. Fascism is just a kind of meaningless wickedness, an aberration, 'mass sadism', the sort of thing that would happen if you suddenly let loose an asylumful of homicidal maniacs.
~ George Orwell
I'm very proud of being Italian-American, but people don't realize that the mafia is just this aberration. The real community is built on the working man, the guy who's the cop, the fireman, the truck driver, the bus driver.
~ Chazz Palminteri
Blair's support for the Americans should not be seen as an aberration; on the contrary, it is closely linked to the main contours of New Labour policy. This has been a government that has majored on hyperbole, but in fact, from the outset it was hugely timid and cravenly orthodox.
~ Martin Jacques
Something that never happens anywhere at any time.
~ Charles Bukowski
This inhuman place makes human monsters.
~ Stephen King
It seemed to him that delusion was the most natural of human states; it was honesty that was the aberration.
~ Erin Hart
All of us insist on our illusions, upon substituting dreams and distorted memories for the real thing...It seemed to him that delusion was the most natural of human states; it was honesty that was the aberration.
~ Erin Hart