quotes about Asylums
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I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.
-- A. E. HousmanSource : "Housman 1897-1936". Book by Grant Richards, p. 100, 1942.
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There is nothing like an insane asylum for gently incubating death.
-- Antonin ArtaudSource : Antonin Artaud (1995). “Watchfiends & Rack Screams: Works from the Final Period”
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So society has strangled in its asylums all those it wanted to get rid of or protect itself from, because they refused to become its accomplices in certain great nastiness.
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Asylums are nothing more than gardens of human cabbages, of miserable, grotesque, repugnant human beings watered with the fertilizer of injections.
-- Antonio Lobo AntunesSource : "Knowledge of Hell (2008)". Book by Antonio Lobo Antunes, 2008.
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Who knows, maybe this whole planet is an asylum, a penal realm. A place for hard cases.
-- Ben Okri -
There is no such thing as a pure extrovert or a pure introvert. Such a man would be in the lunatic asylum.
-- Carl JungSource : William Targ (1975). “Indecent pleasures: the life and colorful times of William Targ”
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The Daily Mail can't say 'asylum-seeker' without saying 'foreign criminal' in the same sentence. I'm sure it's practically editorial policy.
-- Chris Cleave -
For me, stripping was an unusual kind of escape. I had nothing to escape but privilege, but I claimed asylum anyway. At twenty-four, it was my last chance to reject something and become nothing. I wanted to terrify myself. Mission accomplished.
-- Diablo Cody -
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An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.
-- George Bernard Shaw -
Happy, thrice happy shall they be pronounced hereafter, who have contributed any thing, who have performed the meanest office in erecting this stupendous fabrick of Freedom and Empire on the broad basis of Independency; who have assisted in protecting the rights of humane nature and establishing an Asylum for the poor and oppressed of all nations and religions.
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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 WoukSource : Herman Wouk (1970). “This is my God: the Jewish way of life”, Touchstone
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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 ConantSource : 1950 Of Washington. Letter to Bernard Baruch, Feb. Quoted in James G Hershberg James B Conant (1993).
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When Å vejk subsequently described life in the lunatic asylum, he did so in exceptionally eulogistic terms: 'I really don't know why those loonies get so angry when they're kept there. You can crawl naked on the floor, howl like a jackal, rage and bite. If anyone did this anywhere on the promenade people would be astonished, but there it's the most common or garden thing to do. There's a freedom there which not even Socialists have ever dreamed of.
-- Jaroslav Hašek -
Lawsuits generally originate with the obstinate and the ignorant, but they do not end with them; and that lawyer was right who left all his money to the support of an asylum for fools and lunatics, saying that from such he got it, and to such he would bequeath it.
-- Jeremy Bentham -
Being born into the Royal Family is like being born into a mental asylum. Marrying into it is not something to be taken lightly.
-- John Lydon -
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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 -
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 -
If I weren't doing what I'm doing now, the actress thing, the star business, if you want to call it that, whatever it is, I'd be in an asylum. I'm sure of it.
-- Mia Farrow -
It's been my policy to view the Internet not as an 'information highway,' but as an electronic asylum filled with babbling loonies.
-- Mike Royko -
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I had, toward the last, been shut off from all visitors, and so when the lawyer, Peter A. Hendricks, came and told me that friends of mine were willing to take charge of me if I would rather be with them than in the asylum, I was only too glad to give my consent
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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 BlySource : Nellie Bly (2015). “The Collected Works of Nellie Bly (Annotated)”, p.87, Golgotha Press
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I always had a desire to know asylum life more thoroughly - a desire to be convinced that the most helpless of God's creatures, the insane, were cared for kindly and properly.
-- Nellie BlySource : Nellie Bly (2015). “The Collected Works of Nellie Bly (Annotated)”, p.6, Golgotha Press
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The lunatics have taken charge of the asylum.
-- Richard A. RowlandSource : Quoted in Terry Ramsaye, A Million and One Nights (1926)
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If I were to say what I really think I would be arrested or shut away in a lunatic asylum. Come on, I am sure that it would be the same for everyone.
-- Roberto Bolano -
Friendship is like those ancient altars where the unhappy, and even the guilty, found a sure asylum.
-- Sophie Swetchine -
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.
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What sad faces one always sees in the asylums for orphans! It is more fatal to neglect the heart than the head.
-- Theodore Parker -
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Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England.
-- Virginia Woolf -
I shouldn't make movies anymore. I should go to a lunatic asylum.
-- Werner Herzog -
I have no plans to seek asylum in the U.S. or elsewhere. I have not thought about citizenship. I love my country, the only problem I have is with the government.
-- Feyisa LilesaSource : Source: www.sbnation.com
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I hope to be granted asylum. Deportation [ from Germany] that would be a death sentence for me.
-- Irakli OkruashviliSource : Source: www.spiegel.de
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Hollywood-a place where the inmates are in charge of the asylum.
-- Laurence Stallings -
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 -
The message that "we can't take in everybody" is imperative. At the same time, the decision as to who has a right to asylum needs to be made in Brussels.
-- Paolo Gentiloni -
There should be asylums for habitual teetotalers, but they would probably relapse into teetotalism as soon as they got out.
-- Samuel Butler -
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We cannot possibly take them all into this country [asylum seekers] - it is a completely unrealistic expectation.
-- Michael Howard -
'The Tube' was the first time the plebs had gone on the television. The lunatics taking over the asylum.
-- Jools Holland