If there’s life on other planets, then the earth is the Universe’s insane asylum. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Humanity has gained its suit; Liberty will nevermore be without an asylum. — Marquis de Lafayette Copy Share Image
“The mad were put in asylums, but the sane are worse off in their offices.” — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
Friendship is like those ancient altars where the unhappy, and even the guilty, found a sure asylum. — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
The lunatics have taken over the asylum and we can do anything we want. — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
There is nothing like an insane asylum for gently incubating death. — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
Many sensible things banished from high life find an asylum among the mob. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Christianity has made more lunatics than it ever provided asylums for. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The longer I live, the more convinced am I that this planet is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I always had a desire to know asylum life more thoroughly - a desire to be convinced that the most helpless of… — Nellie Bly Copy Share Image
The employment of children is doing more to fill prisons, insane asylums, almshouses, reformatories, slums, and gin shops than all the efforts… — Mother Jones Copy Share Image
Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It's a company town, and I happen… — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
Nietzsche said that the earth has been a madhouse long enough. Without contradicting him we might perhaps soften the expression, and say… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
If you are an actress in L.A., on your 40th birthday they should just hand you the keys to the lunatic asylum. — Romola Garai Copy Share Image
I have no plans to seek asylum in the U.S. or elsewhere. I have not thought about citizenship. I love my country,… — Feyisa Lilesa Copy Share Image
Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as… — Henry David Thoreau 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
Afraid? Batman's not afraid of anything. It's me. I'm afraid. I'm afraid that The Joker may be right about me. Sometimes…I question… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
In Holland, pensions were cut. The public health services for elderly people were cut. Enormous asocial tough measures. And at the same… — Geert Wilders Copy Share Image
No, I won't leave the world--I'll enter a lunatic asylum and see if the profundity of insanity reveals to me the riddles… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Most terrorists are false flag terrorists, or are created by our own security services. In the United States, every single terrorist incident… — Robert David Steele Copy Share Image
If things should go too far and deportation of all whiteguard emigres from the United States were demanded, this would be an… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
Patriots don't go to Russia. They don't seek asylum in Cuba. They don't seek asylum in Venezuela. They fight their cause here.… — John F. Kerry 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
Imagine, [Kriezler] said, that you enter a large, somewhat crumbling hall that echoes with the sounds of people mumbling and talking repetitively… — Caleb Carr Copy Share Image
With savages, the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated. We civilized men, on the other hand, do our utmost to… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I had wished to find in philosophy and religion a remedy for my disgrace; I searched out an asylum to secure me… — Peter Abelard Copy Share Image
The Chinese describe themselves as political refugees. Many base that claim on China's strict population laws, which allow them to have only… — Ed Koch Copy Share Image
Usually, you get a script and you have the whole story. All the acts are there, for a play. You know what… — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
We cannot treat people with a right to asylum the same way as people from a safe country. They need to be… — Paolo Gentiloni Copy Share Image
Let us not compare Edward Snowden's situation with that of Chelsea Manning or Jeremy Hammond, who is also imprisoned in the United… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
[Death is] the best asylum for pains and sorrows and troubles and the injustices of life. — Sadegh Hedayat Copy Share Image
My 'go to' workout is called the Asylum from Beach Body. It's intense training with lots of intervals, core work. It's hard!… — Apolo Ohno Copy Share Image
This stuff they are talking here in Congress costs the people of the United States $44 a page. That's beside what it… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
When I cease to preach salvation by faith in Jesus put me into a lunatic asylum, for you may be sure that… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
It seems as though I were in a lunatic asylum, but I am never sure who is the attendant and who the… — James Bryant Conant Copy Share Image
I do not like the reappearance of the Jesuits... Nevertheless, we are compelled by our system of religious toleration to offer them… — John Adams Copy Share Image
What sad faces one always sees in the asylums for orphans! It is more fatal to neglect the heart than the head. — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
Our first responsibility is to protect the American people and we cannot put on blinders to expect that everyone who seeks asylum… — Bill Shuster Copy Share Image