Asylums Quotes

Our asylum system is sick. — Romano L. Mazzoli

There should be asylums for habitual teetotalers, but they would probably relapse into teetotalism as soon as they got out. — Samuel Butler

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

We cannot possibly take them all into this country [asylum seekers] - it is a completely unrealistic expectation. — Michael Howard

Earth is an insane asylum, to which the other planets deport their lunatics. — Voltaire

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

I shouldn't make movies anymore. I should go to a lunatic asylum. — Werner Herzog

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

All boys belong in insane asylums. — Brandon Mull

Doubtless the lunatic asylums of the world are filled with unfortunate women who have failed to see my charms. — Cassandra Clare

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

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

68. By then all poets will live in artistic communities calls jails or asylums. 69. Our imaginary home, the home we share. — Roberto Bolano

Hollywood-a place where the inmates are in charge of the asylum. — Laurence Stallings

Looking back at the years I spent in the asylums, I'm now convinced some of that insanity rubbed off onto me! — Stephen Richards

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