Top 73 Quotes About Asylums
#1. The world's most brilliant confabulators are in asylums.
Stephen King
#2. On the other hand, I must mention that, by a diligent search in lunatic asylums, I have found individual cases of patients who where unquestionably endowed with great talents, and whose genius distinctly appeared through their madness, which, however, had completely gained the upper hand.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#3. Asylums are nothing more than gardens of human cabbages, of miserable, grotesque, repugnant human beings watered with the fertilizer of injections.
Antonio Lobo Antunes
#4. What sad faces one always sees in the asylums for orphans! It is more fatal to neglect the heart than the head.
Theodore Parker
#5. The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.
G.K. Chesterton
#6. 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
#7. Normal people don't wall their wives up in insane asylums. They don't disinherit their sons because they didn't get the child they wanted.
Leigh Bardugo
#8. In Russia they put you in insane asylums if you disagree with the state: it's not so different here. Keep the natives quiet.
Marilyn French
#9. Half the people in our asylums may be suffering from a physical lesion of the brain but the others are unaccountably insane. The real reason is demoniac possession brought about by looking upon terrible things that they were never meant to see.
Dennis Wheatley
#10. Closing the asylums has not brought us any closer to working out how we should respond to mental illness. We still prefer to think that out of mind should mean out of sight.
Mark Stevens
#11. If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.
E.W. Howe
#12. I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe not all that much better after all.
Stephen King
#13. It's such a tragedy that man endures in killing his brother and his own kind, putting him in jail and insane asylums, letting him lay out in the street.
Sun Ra
#14. I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylums, and possibly a good deal more.
Margaret Atwood
#15. Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums, and those in cemeteries.
Everett Dirksen
#16. People in the world can never imagine the length of days to those in asylums. They seemed never ending, and we welcomed any event that might give us something to think about as well as talk of.
Nellie Bly
#17. I've invaded the walls of the asylums with my ink pen. The way they look at mental illness won't be the same again
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#18. There are different categories of madmen, and different types of asylums! I know absolutely nothing about the asylums that house the madman who thinks he is a space man. Would you believe that 90% of madmen are treated in outside clinics?
Stephen Richards
#19. Doubtless the lunatic asylums of the world are filled with unfortunate women who have failed to see my charms.
Cassandra Clare
#21. You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.
Jane Fonda
#22. Looking back at the years I spent in the asylums, I'm now convinced some of that insanity rubbed off onto me!
Stephen Richards
#23. cloak of secrecy: the private asylums and single-lodging establishments, both
Catherine Bailey
#24. They're caught where there's no way out or where you can't see out. What are you going to do about it? I don't have the answer. If I did there would be no insane asylums.
Ric Ocasek
#25. The only true non-conformists are in the asylums; the only radically free spirits are in the death house awaiting the chair. We live by patterns.
Herman Wouk
#26. There should be asylums for habitual teetotalers, but they would probably relapse into teetotalism as soon as they got out.
Samuel Butler
#28. So society has strangled in its asylums all those it wanted to get rid of or protect itself from, because they refused to become its accomplices in certain great nastiness.
Antonin Artaud
#29. 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
#30. The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people, but if we tried to shut up the insane we should run out of building materials.
Mark Twain
#31. This stuff they are talking here in Congress costs the people of the United States $44 a page. That's beside what it costs to ship it to the asylums where it's read.
Will Rogers
#32. Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England.
Virginia Woolf
#33. In the 1830s, Dorothea Dix revolutionized the care of people with mental illness by taking them out of jails and caring for them in asylums, later known as state hospitals.
Thomas R. Insel
#34. The employment of children is doing more to fill prisons, insane asylums, almshouses, reformatories, slums, and gin shops than all the efforts of reformers are doing to improve society.
Mother Jones
#35. The mad were put in asylums, but the sane are worse off in their offices.
Hanif Kureishi
#36. Wisdom
is in the insane asylums.
The end
is in the everyday-pale smiles
Saif Alsaegh
#37. 68. By then all poets will live in artistic communities calls jails or asylums. 69. Our imaginary home, the home we share.
Roberto Bolano
#38. can tell you. I know of men who believe in themselves more colossally than Napoleon or Caesar. I know where flames the fixed star of certainty and success. I can guide you to the thrones of the Super-men. The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums." He said mildly that there
G.K. Chesterton
#39. We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.
Madeleine L'Engle
#40. In the United States, the person who led the fight to reform treatment of the mentally ill and to develop asylums was Dorothea Dix. Often neglected in history, Dix was a nurse
Molly Caldwell Crosby
#41. The United States should be an asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty.
Thomas Paine
#42. There is nothing like an insane asylum for gently incubating death.
Antonin Artaud
#44. I had always hoped that this land might become a safe and agreeable asylum to the virtuous and persecuted part of mankind, to whatever nation they might belong.
George Washington
#46. In the West, the insane are so many that they are put in an asylum, in China the insane are so unusual that we worship them.
Lin Yutang
#47. Flight from tyranny does not of itself insure a safe asylum, far less a happy home.
Herman Melville
#48. Many sensible things banished from high life find an asylum among the mob.
Herman Melville
#50. Earth is an insane asylum, to which the other planets deport their lunatics.
Voltaire
#51. I become more convinced that beings from other planets are using the Earth as a lunatic asylum
George Bernard Shaw
#52. The insane asylum on Blackwell's Island is a human rat-trap. It is easy to get in, but once there it is impossible to get out.
Nellie Bly
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. I shouldn't make movies anymore. I should go to a lunatic asylum.
Werner Herzog
#56. Friendship is like those ancient altars where the unhappy, and even the guilty, found a sure asylum.
Sophie Swetchine
#58. 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
#59. This planet is obviously being used as an insane asylum by other planets.
George Bernard Shaw
#60. We still have disgraceful policies on asylum seekers and Aboriginal Australians continue to die in custody.
Justine Larbalestier
#61. We cannot possibly take them all into this country [asylum seekers] - it is a completely unrealistic expectation.
Michael Howard
#62. 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
#64. I will turn directly to the Asylum Bill later.
John Major
#65. I think there was no other profession for me. I was either going into an insane asylum or to be an actor.
Olivia Wilde
#66. If I weren't doing what I'm doing now, the actress thing, the star business, if you want to call it that, whatever it is, I'd be in an asylum. I'm sure of it.
Mia Farrow
#67. The lunatics have taken over the asylum and we can do anything we want.
Steve Jobs
#68. 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
#69. I hope to be granted asylum. Deportation [ from Germany] that would be a death sentence for me.
Irakli Okruashvili
#70. There is no such thing as a pure extrovert or a pure introvert. Such a man would be in the lunatic asylum.
Carl Jung
#71. The universities are a sort of lunatic asylum for keeping young men out of mischief.
Mandell Creighton
#73. Lawsuits generally originate with the obstinate and the ignorant, but they do not end with them; and that lawyer was right who left all his money to the support of an asylum for fools and lunatics, saying that from such he got it, and to such he would bequeath it.
Jeremy Bentham
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