Mental Institution Quotes

#1. There was a mental institution near my house, and I would donate time teaching mentally ill patients how to do ceramics. I photographed them as well. So those were my first pictures.

Steven Klein

#2. Upon reflection, I marvel that no one saw through me enough to bundle me off to the nearest mental institution. The fact that it didn't happen depended less on my being a good actress than the fact that I was surrounded, as I had been all my life, by strangers.

Maya Angelou

#3. You people realize you're going to visit a person who is clinically insane in order to find out your future, right?' Lexie says. 'I mean, who's crazier, the person who's been put in a mental institution or the person who asks that person for advice?

Bree Despain

#4. At some point in the last 20 years, the left moved to the center, and the right moved into a mental institution.

Bill Maher

#5. There's a schizoid streak within the family anyway so I dare say that I'm affected by that. The majority of the people in my family have been in some kind of mental institution, as for my brother he doesn't want to leave. He likes it very much.

David Bowie

#6. Dr. Spiro seems to think I don't know how to behave in a mental institution.

Louise Wareham

#7. I don't think anybody thinks about their past much, unless they're in a mental institution.

Tom Verlaine

#8. You know the difference between a real science and a pseudoscience? A real science recognizes and accepts its own history without feeling attacked. When you tell a psychiatrist his mental institution came from a lazar house, he becomes infuriated.

Michel Foucault

#9. I wanted to write when I was young, but people said it was impossible. Then my parents locked me in a mental institution - they said I was crazy and would never make a living from writing.

Paulo Coelho

#10. People can be committed to a mental institution only after judicial hearing, but people are committed to schools beyond the reach of Habeas Corpus.

Martin Mayer

#11. Hey, I'm Maddie. I have been dreaming about you for fifteen years. I was wondering if you were dreaming about me too or if I need to be locked up in a mental institution?

Elena Kincaid

#12. Did you escape a mental institution? "No." "Are you taking any drugs? Were you dropped on your head as a child?" "No and no. Why?" "Because only an idiot would give me shit for sticking around to take care of an unconscious woman who was just attacked.

Eve Langlais

#13. Hell, at this rate she'd end up in the mental institution by the end of the year. Cause: Celibacy.

Jennifer Probst

#14. When you've been locked up in a mental institution, people are going to ask questions. It was OK, because I didn't have to act perfect all the time.

Drew Barrymore

#15. When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father who worked very hard, and we had to figure a lot of things out.

Quincy Jones

#16. Once you've been committed to a mental institution you're considered a second-rate citizen from then on and retroactive.

Mary Jane Ward

#17. Once you've been in a mental institution, people are going to look at you funny.

Drew Barrymore

#18. I was never in a mental institution for a long time. I was in psych wards.

Darrell Hammond

#19. I'm definitely not an outsider artist. I'm very much an insider artist. I get written about in art magazines, and I'm not, like, in a mental institution. I'm a regular guy who went to art school.

David Shrigley

#20. We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#21. The United States were a 35-year-old man, I think he'd be in a mental institution. Violent tendencies - delusions of grandeur - medicate heavily.

Rick Mercer

#22. As he followed Wood, Jury thought: one disappearance, two auto accident victims, one in a mental institution, one drowned. One murdered. Rackmoor, for all its bracing sea air, didn't seem the healthiest place in the British Isles.

Martha Grimes

#23. If you like using CVS, you should be in some kind of mental institution or somewhere else.

Linus Torvalds

#24. It's like, you can't have any fun, and if you do have fun, if you do your own thing, you're considered crazy and should be in a mental institution. Now, that's what I find creepy. I'm eccentric. I am not messed up.

Crispin Glover

#25. I'm not really someone who looks forward to the gym. But I realise it's something that I have to do to perform well on the pitch.

Andrew Flintoff

#26. The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.

Ashley Montagu

#27. So long as men denounce each other as mentally sick (homosexual, addicted, insane, and so forth) so that the madman can always be considered the Other, never the Self mental illness will remain an easily exploitable concept, and Coercive Psychiatry a flourishing institution.

Thomas Szasz

#28. Have you at any time been detained in a mental home or similar institution? If so, give particulars.'
'I was at Scone College, Oxford, for two years,' said Paul.

Evelyn Waugh

#29. I've been very successful at negotiating debates.

Donald Trump

#30. Babyface is definitely a big inspiration.

Taio Cruz

#31. I think it was the institution ... I was trying to master it.

E. Lockhart

#32. I think careful cooking is love, don't you? The loveliest thing you can cook for someone who's close to you is about as nice a valentine as you can give.

Julia Child

#33. The pain of the constant, bone-chilling loneliness she'd accustomed herself to. And learned to live with it.

Christina Dodd