(47 quotes found)
“To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.”
William James
“Indeed, so far from being humorous, the male American is the most abnormally serious creature who ever existed.... It is only fair to admit that he can exaggerate, but even his exaggeration has a rational basis. It is not founded on wit or fancy; it does not spring from any poetic imagination....”
Oscar Wilde
“Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.”
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
“You don't want to love--your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere.”
D.H. Lawrence
“Too many freeways, too much sun, too much abnormality taken normally, too many pink stucco houses and pink stucco consciences.”
Clancy Sigal
“The idea of using censors to bar thoughts of sex is dangerous. A person without sex thoughts is abnormal.”
William Orville Douglas
“I am very abnormal... But it wasn't very long ago that I wasn't so abnormal. I was very normal and headed for a lifetime of paying medical bills as proof of my normalcy.”
Dirk Benedict
“The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.”
Anais Nin
“In the past two decades, what is abnormal in the discourse among nations has been accepted as normal in US-Iran relations. Lack of diplomatic relations, often between countries at conflict, even at war, is the abnormality, not the norm.”
Cyrus Vance
“An agile but unintelligent and abnormal German, possessed of the mania of grandeur”
