Quotes About Mental Institutions

#1. My national resources consist of two joints of marijuana millions of genitals an unpublishable private literature that goes 1400 miles an hour and twenty-five-thousand mental institutions.

Allen Ginsberg

#2. Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.

Michel Foucault

#3. Boundaries aren't all bad. That's why there are walls around mental institutions.

Peggy Noonan

#4. People outside of mental institutions need to have good morals so that the world will continue to work without any major interruptions - and happy endings will flourish.

Matthew Quick

#5. The only people who have proof of their sanity are those who have been discharged from mental institutions

Marshall McLuhan

#6. I'd watched too many schoolmates graduate into mental institutions, into group homes and jails, and I knew that locking people up was paranormal - against normal, not beside it. Locks didn't cure; they strangled.

Scott Westerfeld

#7. To look back before 1800 is to enter another world, one where the number of institutions for the mad was a tiny fraction of today's and what we would now call mental disorders were often understood as religious ecstasies or diabolical possessions.

Mike Jay

#8. We, 'Psych,' saved America. That's the tag line.

Dule Hill

#9. Mystics are all a bit funny in the head anyway," the priest added cynically, "which is why the church locks them all up in mental hospitals and euphemistically calls these institutions monasteries.

Robert Anton Wilson

#10. You should strive to find happiness every day and not believe that it comes at the end of the journey.

William J. Clinton

#11. Our prisons and our jails are now our mental health institutions

Hillary Clinton

#12. Churches were never meant to be mental hospitals. They were supposed to be military outposts under orders to storm the gates of hell. Every believer is on active duty and called to serve a higher purpose with the rank of their blessings and talents.

Shannon L. Alder

#13. And yet here I am. Broken and bleeding on the inside, heartsick, I am here.

Elizabeth Scott

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

Tom Verlaine

#15. The age of the proof is in decline, it is the hour of 'witness' that is coming, hour of the 'marturioa', very calm and very complete: a hope which seems close to being realised.

Henri De Lubac

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

Bill Maher

#17. At heart, the Industrial Revolution has been a revolution in energy conversion. It

Yuval Noah Harari

#18. I'd trapped myself in a script ... But to be scripted at all is to be prepackaged, programmed, pinned to a page. Only the unwritten can truly live a life. So who I was, what I was, had to be unwritten.

David James Duncan

#19. Having deinstitutionalized mental health, we have not created the structure and the institutions to take care of people, to identify when there is a mental health problem, and to get the treatment to people.

Rob Portman

#20. It will be the people with the greatest love, not the most information, who will influence us to change.

Bob Goff

#21. I must, then, repeat continually that we are forever sundered - and yet, while I breathe and think, I must love him.'
- Jane Eyre

Charlotte Bronte

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

Ashley Montagu

#23. Can I see it?"
She knew what he meant, and had held up her hands before her.
Ribbons and plumes and flowers of red and gold fire danced through his room, bright and glorious and elegant.
Chaol's eyes had been lined with silver when the flames winked out. "it's lovely," he said at last.

Sarah J. Maas

#24. Life will not break your heart. It will crush it.

Henry Rollins

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

Drew Barrymore

#26. I think that in the future, clocks won't say three o'clock anymore. They'll just get right to the point and rename three o'clock 'Pepsi.'

Douglas Coupland

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

Mary Jane Ward

#28. Sometimes the world is so much sicker than the inmates of its institutions.

Joanne Greenberg

#29. I would like to start a discussion about ending solitary confinement. I'd like to start a discussion about the removal of MO wings - an "MO" is a "Mental Observation" inmate - from Rikers Island, to be set up in mental health institutions. You can't put people in jail for having mental disorders.

Cecily McMillan

#30. Why do we go to all this trouble' Parker asked. 'Men don't notice anyway.'
'Because what we wear affects how we feel, how we act, how we move. And that they do notice. Especially the move. Get dressed, smoke the eyes. You'll know you look good so you'll feel good. You'll have a better time.

Nora Roberts