#abnormal

I truly cannot imagine men with men, women with women, doing what they were not physically created to do, without abnormal stress and misbehavior. ↗

— Jerry Falwell

#cannot #created #doing #i #imagine

That I survived the Holocaust and went on to love beautiful girls, to talk, to write, to have toast and tea and live my life - that is what is abnormal. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#beautiful #beautiful girls #holocaust #i #life

I just try and surround myself, for the biggest proportion of time that I can, with people who make me feel normal, because constantly feeling abnormal is quite difficult. ↗

— Emma Watson

#because #biggest #constantly #difficult #feel

It may be an extreme example brought about by abnormal circumstances - but the criteria of human rights kick in, surely, precisely when the conditions are extreme and the situation is abnormal. ↗

— Breyten Breytenbach

#about #brought #circumstances #conditions #criteria

All of us are mad. If it weren't for the fact every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn't be any point in giving each person a separate name. ↗

— Ugo Betti

#any #each #every #fact #giving

I thought it was something peculiar to me. I thought I was abnormal. ↗

— Louise Brown

#i #me #peculiar #something #thought

I never wanted to write the sort of song that said, 'Look at how abnormal and crazy and out there I am, man!' ↗

— Brian Eno

#am #crazy #how #i #i am

To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal. ↗

— William James

#best #best way #normal #study #understanding

Living is abnormal. ↗

— Eugene Ionesco

#living

ABNORMAL, adj. Not conforming to standards in matters of thought and conduct. To be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be detested. A striving toward the straiter [sic] resemblance of the Average Man than he hath to himself, whoso attaineth thereto shall have peace, the prospect of death and the hope of Hell. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#bierce #detested #independant #thought #death