
What sad faces one always sees in the
asylums for orphans! It is more fatal to neglect the heart than the head. —
Theodore Parker

Flight from tyranny does not of itself insure a safe asylum, far less a happy home. —
Herman Melville

The world's most brilliant confabulators are in
asylums. —
Stephen King

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

Those comfortably padded lunatic
asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England. —
Virginia Woolf

Friendship is like those ancient altars where the unhappy, and even the guilty, found a sure asylum. —
Sophie Swetchine

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

There is nothing like an insane asylum for gently incubating death. —
Antonin Artaud

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

This planet is obviously being used as an insane asylum by other planets. —
George Bernard Shaw

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

The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic
asylums. —
G.K. Chesterton

The lunatics have taken charge of the asylum. —
Richard A. Rowland

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

We still have disgraceful policies on asylum seekers and Aboriginal Australians continue to die in custody. —
Justine Larbalestier

The universities are a sort of lunatic asylum for keeping young men out of mischief. —
Mandell Creighton

I hope to be granted asylum. Deportation [ from Germany] that would be a death sentence for me. —
Irakli Okruashvili
Asylums are nothing more than gardens of human cabbages, of miserable, grotesque, repugnant human beings watered with the fertilizer of injections. —
Antonio Lobo Antunes

You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in
asylums for. —
Jane Fonda

America is a lunatic asylum. —
Ezra Pound

I become more convinced that beings from other planets are using the Earth as a lunatic asylum —
George Bernard Shaw

Wisdom
is in the insane
asylums.
The end
is in the everyday-pale smiles —
Saif Alsaegh

The lunatics have taken over the asylum and we can do anything we want. —
Steve Jobs

Christianity has made more lunatics than it ever provided
asylums for. —
Robert Green Ingersoll

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

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

The United States should be an asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty. —
Thomas Paine

I will turn directly to the Asylum Bill later. —
John Major

We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature. —
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Many sensible things banished from high life find an asylum among the mob. —
Herman Melville

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

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

Society is an insane asylum ran by the inmates. —
Erving Goffman

The mad were put in
asylums, but the sane are worse off in their offices. —
Hanif Kureishi

cloak of secrecy: the private
asylums and single-lodging establishments, both —
Catherine Bailey

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