“Asylum. The word always made me smile. Such a pretty name for a hellhole.” — jennifer estep Copy Share Image
The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place. — Robert W. Welch, Jr Copy Share Image
Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
South Carolina is too small for a republic and too large for an insane asylum. — James L. Petigru Copy Share Image
The message that "we can't take in everybody" is imperative. At the same time, the decision as to who has a right… — Paolo Gentiloni Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I think there was no other profession for me. I was either going into an insane asylum or to be an actor. — Olivia Wilde Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it seems that the world is a very, very, large, insane asylum. We need only not get caught in others’ madness… — Art Hochberg Copy Share Image
Just previous to the birth of my little son, my mind gave way and my child was born in the asylum for… — Belle Boyd Copy Share Image
I am utterly serious about ending the scourge of illegal migration and I am determined to do whatever it takes to break… — Suella Braverman Copy Share Image
Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“Government was founded on the working premiss of being primarily an asylum for ineptitude and indigence.” — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
For me, stripping was an unusual kind of escape. I had nothing to escape but privilege, but I claimed asylum anyway. At… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
This is called 'the land of the free and the home of the brave'; it is called the 'asylum of the oppressed,'… — William Wells Brown Copy Share Image
We can offer trade deals or international aid, by all means, and we should never desert asylum seekers in their time of… — Julia Hartley-Brewer Copy Share Image
All the asylum clothing is made by the patients, but sewing does not employ one's mind. After several months' confinement the thoughts… — Nellie Bly Copy Share Image
The original asylum process was created during the 'cold war.' In the United States Refugee Act of 1980 America was happy to… — Tom Suozzi Copy Share Image
“Today the world belongs only to the stupid, the insensitive and the agitated. Today the right to live and triumph is awarded… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Our asylum laws were written to protect victims fleeing persecution in their home countries. By limiting the scope of these laws and… — Sharice Davids Copy Share Image
Death, of course, is a refuge. It's where you go when a new name, or a mask and cape, can no longer… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
When Å vejk subsequently described life in the lunatic asylum, he did so in exceptionally eulogistic terms: 'I really don't know why… — Jaroslav Hašek Copy Share Image
“We went back into the Mens Apartments where there were others raving of Ships that may fly and silvered Creatures upon the… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“We hold these stories and mad idea and events in our head and they run around and around telling us we are… — Maureen Muldoon Copy Share Image
“Insane asylums are deliberate and premeditated receptacles of black magic, and it is not only that doctors encourage magic with their untimely… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
“...You know that my spells come from God, and that I would not harm any living creature. You believe that everyone should… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
For eight years I was an inmate in a state asylum for the insane. During those years I passed through such unbearable… — Frances Farmer Copy Share Image
“Then she dropped down on the window seat and leaned throbbing temples against the cool glass. She had been on her feet… — Jean Webster Copy Share Image
“See, there were these two guys in a lunatic asylum... and one night, one night they decide they don't like living in… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
