Quotes About Insane Asylums

#1. 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

#2. All boys belong in insane asylums.

Brandon Mull

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. Wisdom
is in the insane asylums.
The end
is in the everyday-pale smiles

Saif Alsaegh

#6. 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

#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. 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

#10. 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

#11. There is nothing like an insane asylum for gently incubating death.

Antonin Artaud

#12. 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

#13. I know some authors who have gotten $25,000 advances and put it all into marketing, others who allocate $5,000 or $1,000.

M.J. Rose

#14. I remember reading somewhere that you have to learn to love yourself before you can love someone else. But I don't think it's true. I think you have to learn to forget yourself before you can love someone else. At least I seem to forget about myself when I'm with you.

Ryan Winfield

#15. The National Football League needs "a guardian, not a CEO" to deal with the fact that "the sport is simply more and more identified with violence, both in its inherent nature and in its savage personnel.

Frank Deford

#16. Society is an insane asylum ran by the inmates.

Erving Goffman

#17. When the first movie to show the anger people have about the war is a grade Z zombie movie, that tells you all you need to know about how afraid of ruffling anyone's feathers people in the movie business are today.

Joe Dante

#18. The federal government secures the border; Californians decide how we want to treat our population. I think we need a vibrant guest worker program. If we have one, we're going to stop having a lot of issues at the border.

Elizabeth Emken

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. We need love - an awesome love grounded in the evolutionary potential for life on Earth - to become the organizing principle for human society.

Marianne Williamson

#22. Earth is an insane asylum, to which the other planets deport their lunatics.

Voltaire

#23. The old man heard the music of the imperialists issuing from the golden hotel, heavy with the gaiety of despair...

Salman Rushdie

#24. There is nothing worse than the ambitions of a talentless person.

Joseph O'Connor

#25. A jagged object cut the sky above the roofs; it was half a spire, still holding the glow of the sunset; the gold leaf had long since peeled off the other half. The glow was red and still, like the reflection of a fire: not an active fire, but a dying one which it is too late to stop.

Ayn Rand

#26. When you were riding on the crest of a wave, youwere most likely to be missing out on something.

Knute Rockne

#27. Everybody else has been seen, been proven.

Skeet Ulrich

#28. Home is a shelter from storms - all sorts of storms.

William Bennett

#29. 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

#30. My sister the nun, who wasn't going to wait for the bishop because she had an eighty-proof hangover,

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#31. I think there was no other profession for me. I was either going into an insane asylum or to be an actor.

Olivia Wilde

#32. I'm into the scruff. I like an unkempt man. I mean, not like beard to the chest, but I'm definitely a Johnny Depp kinda girl.

Sarah Hay

#33. He's not learning. He's not experiencing. He's remembering.
He walks to the next screen, hungry to be himself again.

James Dashner

#34. This planet is obviously being used as an insane asylum by other planets.

George Bernard Shaw