Jeffrey Eugenides Quotes

Is anyone human actually normal? I'm beginning to think being normal is actually abnormal.

We are tempted to live under the illusion that somewhere out there are people who are normal.

I was always fascinated by people who are considered completely normal, because I find them the weirdest of all

The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.

I always felt like reality was a bizarre place, and everybody was really good at being normal, and I didn't know how to do it.

I don't think anyone's normal.

If you keep saying two plus two equals five over and over again, then that is what people are going to think. Maybe it does equal five if we keep changing the definition of what's normal and what's right and what's wrong.

I've never met anyone normal.

Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?

Abnormal is so common, it's practically normal.

Not everybody needs to be a weirdo.

You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and that to a monster the norm is monstrous.

It may well be that a societys greatest madness seems normal to itself.

Abnormal, adj. Not conforming to standard. In matters of thought and conduct, to be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be detested.

Everything in life that deviates from the straight and, so to speak, normal line, makes people first curious and then indignant.

We live in a society in which it is normal to be sick; and sick to be abnormal.

Normal is absolutely my least favorite word.

No one was normal, not really.

in this world there is only toleration for the so-called normal.

Our modern ideas of 'functioning' through things are really quite inhuman. We have this idea that no matter what is going on we still have to color between the lines, act normal.

It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set.

People want you to be ordinary.

Perhaps a normal man is supposed to be stupid-how do we know? Perhaps it's even very beautiful.

Art is as heavy as sorrow, as light as a breeze, as bright as an idea, as pretty as a picture, as funny as money, and as fugitive as fraud!

I conduct my life with an expectation that people will do the right thing. Yet even with all my experience, I am still surprised when they do not.