Function Quote by James Greer

“What is human life? Is it not a maimed happiness—care and weariness, weariness and care, with the baseless expectation...of a brighter tomorrow?”

— Ernest Renan

“...I cannot live without brain-work. What else is there to live for? Stand at the window here. Was ever such a dreary, dismal, unprofitable…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“Humanity is so adaptable [...] Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.”

— Margaret Atwood

“Everyone has problems. Everyone has a shitty life. But people who embrace that and do something with the misery are seen as the abnormal…

— Andersen Prunty

“There has been a sustained and dreadfully successful campaign to make most people dissatisfied with what I would call the normal life and some…

— Dervla Murphy

“Because the world isn't divided into the special and the ordinary. Everyone has the potential to be extra ordinary.”

— Cassandra Clare

“Humanity is so adaptable, my mother would say. Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.…

— Margaret Atwood

“We need to strive for more than normality because normality brings lack of fruitfulness, lack of growth, lack of increase and lack of success.”

— Euginia Herlihy

“I know you wish to be normal, human, but soon you will see there is nothing better than what you are.”

— Penelope Fletcher

“I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human.”

— Ned Vizzini

“There is boring. There is sensational. There is mediocre. There is lazy. There is good. There is evil. People do implausible things all the…

— Penny Reid

“Calling transforms life so that even the commonplace and menial are invested with the splendour of the ordinary.”

— Anonymous