The world is an asylum where the inmates keep the warders…

“As long as there is life, my dear friends, laughter will be the weapon of we who mock it even as we struggle to…

— George Herman

“Insane asylums are deliberate and premeditated receptacles of black magic, and it is not only that doctors encourage magic with their untimely and hybrid…

— Antonin Artaud

“Asylum. The word always made me smile. Such a pretty name for a hellhole.”

— jennifer estep

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

— Thomas Paine

“I was in a mental asylum? When the fuck did that happen?”

— Darynda Jones

I had, toward the last, been shut off from all visitors, and so when the lawyer, Peter A. Hendricks, came and told me that…

— Nellie Bly

South Carolina is too small for a republic and too large for an insane asylum.

— James L. Petigru

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

— Werner Herzog

Individuals whose asylum claims have been accepted have gone on to become professors, soldiers in our military, artists, and more.

— Pramila Jayapal

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

— Steve Jobs

This is called 'the land of the free and the home of the brave'; it is called the 'asylum of the oppressed,' and some…

— William Wells Brown

I would not invest in a Trump hate wall. We don't need to be protected from immigrants that are coming here seeking asylum and…

— Ayanna Pressley

“congress - that great, benevolent asylum for the helpless”

— Mark Twain

Sometimes I think they should set up an asylum for people like that... a whole slew of paparazzi defending their positions.

— Anonymous

Any country that grants asylum to Snowden risks retaliation from the United States, including diplomatic isolation and costly trade sanctions. Several don't seem to…

— Stephen Kinzer