Normality Quotes

Normality is a paved road: It's comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it. (Vincent van Gogh)
We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem. View quote
Douglas Adams
The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral standards of judgment, this normality was much more terrifying than all the atrocities put together. View quote
Hannah Arendt
In our study of psychopathology, we began as sadists trying to produce abnormality. Today, we are psychiatrists trying to achieve normality and equanimity. View quote
Harry Harlow
We are defining the boundaries of normality by tearing apart the people outside it. View quote
Jon Ronson
Yes, I remember the barbed wire and the guard towers and the machine guns, but they became part of my normal landscape. What would be abnormal in normal times became my normality in camp. View quote
George Takei
There is no normality in life. Having two houses means that we can get out of each other's hair - which, let's face it, we've both got a lot of. View quote
Helena Bonham Carter
One has never said better how much "humanism", "normality", "quality of life" were nothing but the vicissitudes of profitability. View quote
Jean Baudrillard
There is no such thing as a normal period of history. Normality is a fiction of economic textbooks. View quote
Joan Robinson
As long as there is a wall, barbed wire and orders to shoot, there can be no talk of normality in Germany. View quote
Helmut Kohl
Normality is to be different. Every person is a different person. And one day you need to be aware of your difference. Aware that you are not the same as the others. That is to be normal. (Alejandro Jodorowsky)
We are now cruising at a level of two to the power of twenty-five thousand to one against and falling, and we will be restoring normality just as soon as we are sure what is normal anyway. View quote
Douglas Adams
Every region should retain representative samples of its original or wilderness condition, to serve science as a sample of normality. Just as doctors must study healthy people to understand disease, so must the land sciences study the wilderness to understand disorders of the land-mechanism. View quote
Aldo Leopold
Music is the exact opposite of anxiety. It's there to relieve anxiety, to calm you down. And to just get the noise out of your biological system. So that, it's not going to make your immune system stronger than normal. What it does, in my view, is allow your immune system to work with the full force of normality. View quote
Neal Barnard
When I was a teenager, I thought nothing would ever happen to me because my childhood was so normal. I had this complex of normality. View quote
Audrey Tautou
We are in a world that is quite extremist and extremism makes more noise. Normality does not sell. View quote
Vicente del Bosque
The red carpet is kind of a surreal experience. There's nothing normal about it, so for me the most important thing is to maintain some normality right until the point you get out of the car. View quote
Samantha Barks
Throughout my entire life, I constantly tried to fight normality. I hate it. I hate the idea of it. I hate routine. I hate anything that feels remotely regular or right. View quote
Tom Odell
There are a lot of factors in the life of an F1 driver which can combine to make you believe that you are somehow above normality. I think that is a mistake to start believing that. But, at the same time, it is important to be confident. View quote
Damon Hill
The trick is the paradox - turning your story inside out. Now if it is something that appears to be of total normality and then suddenly turns inside out and is a different thing all together then that's fun to write. View quote
Nigel Kneale
In a world where numbers inexorably take over as our means of identification, like flowing lava threatening to suffocate and fosilize all breathing life in its path; in a world where "normality" is defined as keeping your cool; where sex is so available that the only way to preserve any inner center is to have intercourse without committing yourself - in such a schizoid world, which young people experience more directly since they have not had time to build up the defenses which dull the senses of their elders, it is not surprising that will and love have become increasingly problematic and even, as some people believe, impossible of achievement. (Rollo May)
There is a subconscious way of taking violence as a way of expression, as a normality, and it has a lot of effects in the youth in the way they absorb education and what they hope to get out of life. View quote
Salma Hayek
"Natural" is a very dangerous word to use about sexuality ... Our society's notions of normality are completely fake and meta-trendy, since they rely on the changing standards of superstition, religion, Christianity and gender bias to define themselves. Americans, in particular, exhibit very childish reactions to sexual practices that are new to them, much like little kids who are offered a vegetable they haven't seen before: "That's disgusting!" "But darling, you haven't even tried it!" "I don't care, I hate it, I hate it! View quote
Susie Bright
What does all this mean finally, I kept asking like a college kid. Why does it make me want to cry? Maybe it's that we are all outsiders, we are all making our own unusual way through a wilderness of normality that is just a myth. View quote
Anne Rice
Normality is what we might achieve, given who we are, what we are, the conditions and limitations of the world we work within. View quote
Robert Fripp