Top 100 Asylum Quotes
#1. What's the name for the space between stars?"
"No such name."
"Make one up."
I thought about it. "The soul asylum."
"That's another way of saying heaven, Agnes.
Hannah Kent
#2. I thought Marilla Cuthburt was an old fool when I heard she'd adopted a girl out of an orphan asylum," she said to herself, "but I guess she didn't make much of a mistake after all. If I'd a child like Anne in the house all the time I'd be a better and happier woman.
L.M. Montgomery
#3. I was in a mental asylum? When the fuck did that happen?
Darynda Jones
#4. The message that "we can't take in everybody" is imperative. At the same time, the decision as to who has a right to asylum needs to be made in Brussels.
Paolo Gentiloni
#5. This girl is destroying me. A girl who has spent the last year in an insane asylum. A girl who would try to shoot me dead for kissing her. A girl who ran off with another man just to get away from me. Of course this is the girl I would fall for. I close a hand over my mouth. I am losing my mind.
Tahereh Mafi
#6. Many people think it's in bad taste to advertise for an insane asylum ... but come on down. We're going crazy.
Colin Mochrie
#7. He saw blurry white forms. Why they all are wearing white? Langdon decided he was either in an asylum or heaven. From the burning in his throat, Langdon decided it could not be heaven.
Dan Brown
#8. It shouldn't be the asylum seekers wondering which country they want go to. It should be Europe telling them where to be, be it Lithuania, Sweden, or wherever.
Mark Rutte
#9. All the asylum clothing is made by the patients, but sewing does not employ one's mind. After several months' confinement the thoughts of the busy world grow faint, and all the poor prisoners can do is to sit and ponder over their hopeless fate.
Nellie Bly
#10. This planet is obviously being used as an insane asylum by other planets.
George Bernard Shaw
#11. Sometimes it seems that the world is a very, very, large, insane asylum. We need only not get caught in others' madness and stick to our own.
Art Hochberg
#12. This is called 'the land of the free and the home of the brave'; it is called the 'asylum of the oppressed,' and some have been foolish enough to call it the 'Cradle of Liberty.' If it is the 'Cradle of Liberty,' they have rocked the child to death.
William Wells Brown
#13. The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.
Thomas Paine
#14. Patriots don't go to Russia. They don't seek asylum in Cuba. They don't seek asylum in Venezuela. They fight their cause here. Edward Snowden is a coward. He is a traitor. And he has betrayed his country. And if he wants to come home tomorrow to face the music, he can do so.
John F. Kerry
#15. Being born into the Royal Family is like being born into a mental asylum. Marrying into it is not something to be taken lightly.
John Lydon
#16. I looked out to see a forbidding place with granite walls and towering gates,
implacable barriers to be reckoned with, the words strung across the archway struck fear into
my confused mind:
MARSH LUNATIC ASYLUM.
This was my new home for now.
Carole Gill
#17. I think the big danger of madness is not madness itself, but the habit of madness. What I discovered during the time I spent in the asylum is that I could choose madness and spend my whole life without working, doing nothing, pretending to be mad. It was a very strong temptation..
Paulo Coelho
#18. We still have disgraceful policies on asylum seekers and Aboriginal Australians continue to die in custody.
Justine Larbalestier
#19. If someone tells you you're crazy enough times, eventually it becomes true. It's that old psychiatrist's joke: insanity's all in your head.
Madeleine Roux
#20. Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.
Samuel Adams
#21. Sometimes I think they should set up an asylum for people like that ... a whole slew of paparazzi defending their positions.
Robin Wright
#22. The world is an asylum where the inmates keep the warders in their place.
George Herman
#24. Surely my macking on some guy in an insane asylum wouldn't hurt him. He'd been living with his stalker, for heaven's sake.
Darynda Jones
#25. We cannot possibly take them all into this country [asylum seekers] - it is a completely unrealistic expectation.
Michael Howard
#26. One of the first achievements of the legislature was to institute a ten-thousand-dollar agricultural fair to show off forty dollars' worth of pumpkins in - however, the Territorial legislature was usually spoken of as the "asylum".
Mark Twain
#27. I would be happy to accept asylum, political asylum, in India a nation I love. In return, I will bring Mayawati a range of the finest British footwear.
Julian Assange
#28. In a face, look for the main light and the main shadow; the rest will come naturally - it's often not important. And then you must cultivate your memory, because Nature will only provide you with references. Nature is like a warden in a lunatic asylum. It stops you from becoming banal.
Edouard Manet
#29. If you're committed, that just means you're in agreement your undertaking could be your ticket to the asylum.
Todd Day
#30. Civilization today reminds me of an ape with a blowtorch playing in a room full of dynamite. It looks like the monkeys are about to operate the zoo, and the inmates are taking over the asylum.
Vance Havner
#31. He'll have to do without me, Jamie thought, not looking back. And then clearly, as if he'd been told, he knew Grenville /could/ do without him. There was somewhere else he had to go now, somewhere else he had to be.
S.E. Hinton
#33. For those of you who may be homeschooled: high school is that four-year asylum where they put teenagers because we have no idea what else to do with them.
Anthony M. Esolen
#34. I will turn directly to the Asylum Bill later.
John Major
#35. Is it my relative sanity that makes my life here so painful, so desperate, so hopeless? Loosen my grip on that, and perhaps life both in the asylum and out becomes much easier ...
Emilie Autumn
#36. And her nephew, getting his PhD at Wisconsin, was declared insane and committed to a state asylum when they discovered he was a leader in the Communist Party there.
Lily King
#37. There was a time when our desire for each other would have landed us in an asylum or prison, had it not been sanctioned by mutual assent. True or false.
Lawrence Krauser
#38. conversing, in low tones, with the asylum librarian, an alumna
Sylvia Plath
#39. Well they're very, very genuine concerns at present as to the status of the 800 people who are to be sent by Australia to Malaysia. There's concern about the status of asylum seekers in Malaysia generally, but there's concern about the status of the 800 to be sent.
Julie Bishop
#41. Just previous to the birth of my little son, my mind gave way and my child was born in the asylum for the insane at Stockton, Cal. My boy was buried there.
Belle Boyd
#42. You never did ask each other anything, did you? And you never told each other anything. You just sat and watched each other, and guessed at what was going on underneath. A deaf-and-dumb asylum, in fact!
Edith Wharton
#43. We are all lunatics... 'tis only the manner of our asylum that differs.
Andy Monk
#44. All spiritual strength for ourselves, all noble ties to one another, have their real source in that inner sanctuary where God denies His lonely audience to none. Its secrets are holy; its asylum, inviolate; its consolations, sure; and all are open to the simple heart-word, Thou art my hiding-place.
James Martineau
#45. She'd been real melancholy in the fall - religious melancholy - it ran in her family. Her father worried so much over believing that he had committed the unpardonable sin that he died in the asylum.
L.M. Montgomery
#46. He was many things right now. and he felt like he was being pulled in a million conflicting directions.
Madeleine Roux
#47. They had engaged in what could not be called treatment or even discussion, but open combat, the two of them a microcosm of the great war raging in the far distance: one side that desired autonomy, and the other that took independence as a sign of madness.
Kathy Hepinstall
#48. I think there was no other profession for me. I was either going into an insane asylum or to be an actor.
Olivia Wilde
#49. Zuckerman, sucker though he was for seriousness, was still not going to be drawn into a discussion about agents and editors. If ever there was a reason for an American writer to seek asylum in Red China, it would be to put ten thousand miles between himself and those discussions.
Philip Roth
#50. People who liked the 'Arkham Asylum' video game can Google comics to download.
Jim Lee
#51. I saw an old woman dressed in seatcovers, sewn into a dress, a man in a jacket made from a flag. It gave them an air of desperate grandeur, like guests at an asylum ball.
Sebastian Faulks
#52. How had I ever thought he was cute? He so needed to be locked up in an insane asylum somewhere. Too bad Batman wasn't here to come and drag his ass off to Arkham.
Jennifer Estep
#53. Wasn't that awesome?" Seth asked.
Warren cocked his head, his expression mildly embarrassed. "I'm sorry, Kendra
it was pretty cool."
"All boys belong in insane asylums," Kendra said.
Brandon Mull
#54. He discriminated against neither the avaricious nor the prodigal: both were committed to the asylum; this led people to say that the alienist's concept of madness included practically everybody.
Machado De Assis
#55. I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat.
Antonin Artaud
#56. Soon enough the tears came but of course nobody came down to see if she was all right, it was just the slut in the kitchen who'd ruined their lives, getting drunk of neat gin and howling for her lost lunatic offer.
Patrick McGrath
#57. I didn't come into politics to have to deal with the issue of clandestine entry, illegal working, or an asylum system that allows a free run for right-wing bigots.
David Blunkett
#58. We're all crazy, Ms. Sutton. Some of us are simply crazier than others.
Lily White
#59. Warm sun and robin's-egg skies were inappropriate conditions for sending one's uncle to a lunatic asylum.
Sharon Cameron
#61. I stick my tongue out at it. Ugh. I should be committed to an insane asylum. At least I'm not talking to a volley ball.
Jen Wylie
#62. The lunatics have taken over the asylum and we can do anything we want.
Steve Jobs
#63. Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It's a company town, and I happen to like the company!
Michael Caine
#64. The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place.
Robert W. Welch Jr.
#65. And a united Europe will also manage to send hundreds of thousands of migrants, who don't have the right to asylum, back to their homelands. Though that, given the number of flights necessary, would be of a scale reminiscent of the Berlin Airlift.
Paolo Gentiloni
#66. In today's life, the world belongs only to the stupid, the insensitive and the agitated. The right to live and triumph is now conquered almost by the same means by which you conquer internment in an asylum: the inability to think, amorality and hiperexcitation.
Fernando Pessoa
#67. I hope to be granted asylum. Deportation [ from Germany] that would be a death sentence for me.
Irakli Okruashvili
#68. It's been my policy to view the Internet not as an 'information highway', but as an electronic asylum filled with babbling loonies.
Mike Royko
#69. When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.
Henry Ward Beecher
#70. A hermitage in the forest is the refuge of the narrow-minded misanthrope; a hammock on the ocean is the asylum for the generous distressed.
Herman Melville
#71. To go into acting is like asking for admission to an insane asylum. Anyone may apply, but only the certifiably insane are admitted.
Michael Shurtleff
#72. Chef cookin for me They say my shoe game crazy The mental asylum lookin for me
Nicki Minaj
#73. Abby's eyes seemed almost as vacant as those of the girl in the photograph. Then a shiver came over her and she blinked. Gently, almost affectionately, she put the picture back on the wall. She touched it one last time and said, Poor little bird. I wonder if she ever escaped her cage.
Madeleine Roux
#74. Addy, living one day without you would never be for the best. I want you every minute of every day. Forever. I love you.
Lauren Hammond
#76. As long as there are people in exile, there will be people who want to get back to their native soil.
Warren Eyster
#77. The child psychologist's clinic: where imaginary friends go to die, where dreams go to burn, where creativity goes to drown.
Rebecca McNutt
#78. There is no such thing as a pure extrovert or a pure introvert. Such a man would be in the lunatic asylum.
Carl Jung
#79. I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum
George Bernard Shaw
#80. When there's a monster under your bed sometimes it really is best not to look.
Jocelynn Drake
#81. It goes so fast, he thought, they don't tell you that, how fast it goes ...
S.E. Hinton
#82. Incarceration seems to have been obtained in consequence of Mrs. Packard using her reason and, not as reported, by her losing her reason.
Emily Mann
#83. Live in robust sanity, in holy obedience to the ordinary." (The Message) "In an insane asylum like the world, simple sanity can be a heroic achievement.
Peter Kreeft
#84. The wisest among us is very lucky never to have met the woman, be she beautiful or ugly, intelligent or stupid, who could drive him crazy enough to be fit to be put into an asylum.
Denis Diderot
#85. I'm thinking of killing everyone whose name is a palindrome
Dan Slott
#86. I am very unhappy about reports that I was seeking asylum in Manila.
Sukarno
#87. Congress - that great, benevolent asylum for the helpless
Mark Twain
#88. What is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum? These people drift through life truly innocent, unable to see into themselves at all.
Arthur Miller
#89. If there's life on other planets, then the earth is the Universe's insane asylum.
Voltaire
#90. A mental hospital, insanity, an insane asylum, where people were not ashamed to say that they were crazy, where no one stopped doing something they were enjoying just to be nice to others.
Paulo Coelho
#91. The point of asylum is not to declare to the world what country you think is the pinnacle of civilization. The point of asylum is to find a country that's both willing and able to protect you from political persecution. In no way is asylum an endorsement of a country's politics, laws, or values.
Glenn Greenwald
#92. Government was founded on the working premiss of being primarily an asylum for ineptitude and indigence.
William Faulkner
#93. The universities are a sort of lunatic asylum for keeping young men out of mischief.
Mandell Creighton
#94. There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum.
Carl Jung
#95. I dedicate this book to the rock of hospitality and liberty, to that portion of old Norman ground inhabited by the noble nation of the sea, to the island of Guernsey, severe yet kind, my present asylum, my probable tomb.
Victor Hugo
#96. I do not oppose the insane asylum - but I abhor and condemn the cutthroat system that robs man of his reason, drives him to insanity and makes the lunatic asylum an indispensable adjunct to every civilized community.
Eugene V. Debs
#97. I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.
A.E. Housman
#98. For me, stripping was an unusual kind of escape. I had nothing to escape but privilege, but I claimed asylum anyway. At twenty-four, it was my last chance to reject something and become nothing. I wanted to terrify myself. Mission accomplished.
Diablo Cody
#99. There's not a drug on earth can make life meaningful
Sarah Kane
#100. If you are an actress in L.A., on your 40th birthday they should just hand you the keys to the lunatic asylum.
Romola Garai
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