Abnormal Quote by William James

“One's appreciation of, and understanding of the normal or the usual is requisite for any understanding of the abnormal or the unusual.”

— Milton Erickson

Any child soldier has to go through a lot of love, care and understanding to become normal.

— Emmanuel Jal

One of the difficulties with grief research is that it risks making certain kinds of grief seem normal and others abnormal - and of…

— Meghan O'Rourke

The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament normal it would seem to people to be abnormal.

— Vance Havner

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

“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

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

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