Quotes About Lunatic Asylums

#1. 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

#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. The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.

G.K. Chesterton

#4. 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

#5. Doubtless the lunatic asylums of the world are filled with unfortunate women who have failed to see my charms.

Cassandra Clare

#6. Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England.

Virginia Woolf

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

Werner Herzog

#8. His voice had a faint trace of an accent she couldn't place - one that made her pretty sure he was no local kid infected the night before.

Holly Black

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. I think I'm more bonded, emotionally and in a craft sense, to films that tell extraordinary stories about extraordinary destinies.

Ben Kingsley

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

George Bernard Shaw

#13. The life I should be living had been mislaid through some clerical error by the cosmic bureaucracy.

Lev Grossman

#14. 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

#15. Those who know God the best are the richest and most powerful in prayer. Little acquaintance with God, and strangeness and coldness to Him, make prayer a rare and feeble thing.

Edward McKendree Bounds

#16. In other hand of the enemy will arise the fortune hero.

Lena Hussain

#17. Learning is essential for living the life you love.

A.D. Posey

#18. He hated it. Bennett could see it in every line of his body. Marsdon hated being out of control. He hated being in bondage. He hated submitting.
He hated it almost as much as he loved his mate.

Kim Dare

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

Mandell Creighton

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

Carl Jung

#21. America is a lunatic asylum.

Ezra Pound

#22. It's not because I like him. I'm just disappointed. Disappointed in love.

Kim A-joong

#23. Karma is your survival and your bondage. And if you handle it right, it can also be your liberation.

Jaggi Vasudev