Living is abnormal.

The supreme trick of mass insanity is that it persuades you that the only abnormal person is the one who refuses to join in…

— Eugene Ionesco

“He knew that he was caught up in one of those stretches of time when for anything to happen normally would be abnormal. The…

— Mervyn Peake

Victory is the normal experience of a Christian; defeat should be the abnormal experience.

— Watchman Nee

My work involves the physical manifestation of emotional reality. Thus, the invisible becomes visible; the normal, abnormal; and the familiar, unfamiliar. Ordinary life is…

— Sandy Skoglund

I guess I'm attracted to these off beat roles because my life has been a bit abnormal. The only thing I have a problem…

— Johnny Depp

Fury is an entirely appropriate response to a system that sends young people to kill other young people in a war that never should…

— Naomi Klein

In the theory of gender I began from zero. There is no masculine power or privilege I did not covet. But slowly, step by…

— Camille Paglia

“A ‘normal person’ is what is left after society has squeezed out all unconventional opinions and aspirations out of a human being.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Depression is not caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain, and it is not cured by medication. Depression may not even be an…

— Irving Kirsch

It may be an extreme example brought about by abnormal circumstances - but the criteria of human rights kick in, surely, precisely when the…

— Breyten Breytenbach

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…

— Anonymous

I think the thing that music can do is be unsettling. It is abnormal - music that's perceived to be different in an unresolved…

— Bear McCreary

Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.

— Henry Adams

“The abnormal ones stand out. Thankfully I'm abnormal.”

— Marion Bekoe

While sleep is clearly vital to emotional well-being, what is it, exactly, about sleep that is so necessary? As it turns out, mood disorders…

— Andrew Weil