Lunatic Asylum Quotes

#1. 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

#2. was passed authorizing the appointment of a commission to select a site for an additioual lunatic asylum and to commence its erection. A site was selected three miles from Morristown, and 430 acres of land were purchased. An extensive building was erected, at a cost, including land,

Monroe Howell

#3. I shouldn't make movies anymore. I should go to a lunatic asylum.

Werner Herzog

#4. It seems as though I were in a lunatic asylum, but I am never sure who is the attendant and who the inmate.

James Bryant Conant

#5. When I cease to preach salvation by faith in Jesus put me into a lunatic asylum, for you may be sure that my mind is gone.

Charles Spurgeon

#6. I want to be taken to a madhouse," said Turnbull distinctly, giving the direction with a sort of precision. "I want to go back to exactly the same lunatic asylum from which I came." "Why?" asked the unknown. "Because I want a little sane and wholesome society," answered Turnbull.

G.K. Chesterton

#7. I become more convinced that beings from other planets are using the Earth as a lunatic asylum

George Bernard Shaw

#8. It is called in our schools 'beastliness', and this is about the best name for it ... should it become a habit it quickly destroys both health and spirits; he becomes feeble in body and mind, and often ends in a lunatic asylum.

Robert Baden-Powell

#9. Washington is the only lunatic asylum in the world run by its own inmates.

W. Lee O'Daniel

#10. If I were to say what I really think I would be arrested or shut away in a lunatic asylum. Come on, I am sure that it would be the same for everyone.

Roberto Bolano

#11. Later the island was turned into a leper colony, a lunatic asylum, and a naval base. The government had only recently turned the island back into a prison.

Nelson Mandela

#12. A man is called a good fellow for doing things which, if done by a woman, would land her in a lunatic asylum.

H.L. Mencken

#13. I cannot here avoid giving my most decided sufferage in favour of the moral qualities of maniacs. I have no where met, excepting in romances, with fonder husbands, more affectionate parents, more impassioned ... than in the lunatic asylum, during their intervals of calmness and reason.

Philippe Pinel

#14. The world is becoming like a lunatic asylum run by lunatics.

David Lloyd George

#15. We all talked at the same time, not listening to one another, sometimes seconding and praising one another in order to be seconded and praised in turn, sometimes getting angry with one another - just as in a lunatic asylum.

Leo Tolstoy

#16. My own view is that this planet is used as a penal colony, lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a superior civilisation, to get rid of the undesirable and unfit. I can't prove it, but you can't disprove it either.

Christopher Hitchens

#17. The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.

Thomas Paine

#18. 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

#19. America is a lunatic asylum.

Ezra Pound

#20. Warm sun and robin's-egg skies were inappropriate conditions for sending one's uncle to a lunatic asylum.

Sharon Cameron

#21. 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

#22. Nothing matters in this goddamned lunatic asylum of a world but dough.

William Lindsay Gresham

#23. There is no such thing as a pure extrovert or a pure introvert. Such a man would be in the lunatic asylum.

Carl Jung

#24. 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

#25. The universities are a sort of lunatic asylum for keeping young men out of mischief.

Mandell Creighton

#26. There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum.

Carl Jung

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.

Havelock Ellis

#30. A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#31. 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

#32. I really am a unicorn?' I asked again.

'You think Janis and I escaped from an asylum, don't you?' she teased.

'I hope you're not,' I said, horrified at the thought of being turned into a lunatic like them.

Deepika Kumaaraguru

#33. Asylums are crazy places, with crazy rules. If you're not mad when you arrive, you are when you leave. (That's if you ever leave.) I was lucky ... I got slung out; they couldn't afford to keep me any longer.

Stephen Richards

#34. When it comes to correct English, there's no one in charge; the lunatics are running the asylum.

Steven Pinker

#35. It seemed to me I was living in an insane asylum of my own making. I went about with all these fantastic figures: centaurs, nymphs, satyrs, gods and goddesses, as though they were patients and I was analyzing them. I read a Greek or Negro myth as if a lunatic were telling me his anamnesis.

C. G. Jung