Top 418 Unnatural Quotes & Sayings

Collaboration on a book is the ultimate unnatural act.

Exercise is an unnatural act.

Girls developed eating disorders when our culture developed a standard of beauty that they couldn't obtain by being healthy. When unnatural thinness became attractive, girls did unnatural things to be thin.

At times there is nothing so unnatural as nature.

Nature is actually unnatural

You don't get music in your daily life, do you? Even in a movie, it's unnatural to have music. I always feel it's unnatural. But I want to make it not unnatural, to construct reality in another sense.

I want to perform an unnatural act.

I'm always feeling excruciatingly embarrassed after a concert; it's such an unnatural thing to do. On one hand, it's so unnatural to step in front of so many people and try to do something like I do, but on the other hand, it can be such a fantastic boon and such a wonderful ride.

There's something unnatural about losing a sibling when they're young.

Sex is normal and natural, and we've made it abnormal and unnatural.

Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.

There is nothing unnatural in this world," he said. "An unnatural thing is a thing that could never happen in nature. I happened. I am natural, and the things I want are natural. The power of your mind, and your beauty, even when you've been drugged in the bottom of a boat for two weeks, covered in grime and your face purple and green - your unnatural beauty is natural. Nature is horrifying.

Comedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act.

To be ungrateful is to be unnatural. The head may be thus guilty, not the heart.

Trying to act normal is the most unnatural behavior of all.

Literary history and the present are dark with silences . . . I have had special need to learn all I could of this over the years, myself so nearly remaining mute and having to let writing die over and over again in me. These are not natural silences--what Keats called agonie ennuyeuse (the tedious agony)--that necessary time for renewal, lying fallow, gestation, in the natural cycle of creation. The silences I speak of here are unnatural: the unnatural thwarting of what struggles to come into being, but cannot.

It is unnatural to deny effort, adversity, and pain.

War is unnatural, it causes people to act unnaturally.

The presence of excessive wealth puts an unnatural spin on the appreciation of art.

There's something really unnatural about losing a child, and there's something unnatural about having to write an elegy for your child, but I felt that I wanted people to know what he was like.

The unnatural and the strange have a perfume of their own

Many have attempted unnatural acts, but Nature has always shown the way.

Why are people more appalled at what they term an unnatural form of dying than by an unnatural form of living?

Unnatural deeds Do breed unnatural troubles: infected minds To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets.

Unnatural deeds do breed unnatural troubles.

Fear is unnatural. Lightning and thunder are unnatural. Pain, death, reality, these are all unnatural. We can't bear these things as they are. We know too much. So we resort to repression, compromise and disguise. This is how we survive the universe. This is the natural language of the species.

A natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.

We are so trained in the thought system of fear and attack that we get to the point where natural thinking - love - feels unnatural and unnatural thinking - fear - feels natural. It takes real discipline and training to unlearn the thought system of fear.

[I have seen] workers in whom certain morbid affections gradually arise from some particular posture of the limbs or unnatural movements of the body called for while they work. Such are the workers who all day stand or sit, stoop or are bent double, who run or ride or exercise their bodies in all sorts of [excess] ways. ... the harvest of diseases reaped by certain workers ... [from] irregular motions in unnatural postures of the body.

Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent

You can be a thorough-going Neo-Darwinian without imagination, metaphysics, poetry, conscience, or decency. For 'Natural Selection' has no moral significance: it deals with that part of evolution which has no purpose, no intelligence, and might more appropriately be called accidental selection, or better still, Unnatural Selection, since nothing is more unnatural than an accident. If it could be proved that the whole universe had been produced by such Selection, only fools and rascals could bear to live.

There's nothing unnatural in creation.

Non-co-operation in itself is unnatural, vicious and sinful.

Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace.

It is unnatural for a Christian not to have an appetite for the impossible.

The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible.

Drinking with women is as unnatural as scolding with 'em.

The only unnatural sexual behavior is none at all.

Instrument flying is an unnatural act probably punishable by God.

My mother was a journalist, so writing is not unnatural to me.

There is nothing more unnatural to religion than contentions about it.

Insanity is a perfectly natural adjustment to a totally unnatural and negative environment.

The only unnatural sex act is that which you cannot perform.

1 is not prime, by definition. 2 is an unnatural prime, 4 is an unnatural prime, and 6 is an unnatural prime. All other natural primes cannot be unnatural primes.

Anything unnatural was not naturally believed. Faith, in essence, was unnatural.

As unnatural as dancing is, you have to find a natural way to do the unnatural.

But not to have music would be unnatural to me.

Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.

We weren't built to fly. We can do it, but we shouldn't be surprised if it feels a little unnatural.

People are the only animals that drink the milk of the mother of another species. All other animals stop drinking milk altogether after weaning. It is unnatural for a dog to nurse from a mother giraffe; it is just as unnatural for a human being to drink the milk of a cow.

Martin Luther King has made the Negro in America unnatural.

Fame is a very unnatural human condition.

Nothing is unnatural - just untried.

No religion is better than an unnatural one.

I became the unnatural son of a few score of beaten men.

The truest definition of evil is that which represents it as something contrary to nature; evil is evil because it is unnatural; a vine which should bear olive-berries, an eye to which blue seems yellow, would be diseased; an unnatural mother, an unnatural son, an unnatural act, are the strongest terms of condemnation.

I could never just play in a pub in front of four people because I would have had all the press turn up. That way, you don't get to build up naturally. It makes the work feel unnatural, and puts a lot of unnatural pressure on you.

This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural.

The unnatural, that too is natural.

Basically, I want the most unnatural look possible.