--- title: "7 Mental Asylum Quotes by 6 authors" description: "Browse 7 Mental Asylum quotes by 6 authors. Discover the best Mental Asylum sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/830/jos-saramago-208_blind_say-to-a-blind-man-you-re-free-open-the_234552.jpg" --- > [“Say to a blind man, you’re free, open the door that was separating him from the world, Go, you are free, we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jos-saramago/say-to-a-blind-man-you-re-free-open-the-door-that-was-separating-him/) [Jose Saramago](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jos-saramago/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/830/jos-saramago-208_blind_say-to-a-blind-man-you-re-free-open-the_234552.jpg) > [“I was in a mental asylum? When the fuck did that happen?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/darynda-jones/i-was-in-a-mental-asylum-when-the-fuck-did-that-happen/) [Darynda Jones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/darynda-jones/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/870/darynda-jones-474_asylum_i-was-in-a-mental-asylum-when-the-fuck-d_235833.png) > [“Clennon King, a black student who applied to the University of Mississippi in 1958, was forcefully committed to a mental asylum. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yuval-noah-harari/clennon-king-a-black-student-who-applied-to-the-university-of/) [Yuval Noah Harari](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yuval-noah-harari/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2d8/yuval-noah-harari-100_black-person_clennon-king-a-black-student-who-applied_645374.jpg) > [Louisiana is a fresh-air mental asylum.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-lee-burke/louisiana-is-a-fresh-air-mental-asylum/) [James Lee Burke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-lee-burke/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7f2/james-lee-burke-2289_air_louisiana-is-a-fresh-air-mental-asylum-1_1065132.png) > [“Oh Christ, he understood more than he wanted to right now. Give me a chance, Louis thought, and I’ll understand myself right…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/oh-christ-he-understood-more-than-he-wanted-to-right-now-give-me-a/) [Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2ce/stephen-king-13_crazy_oh-christ-he-understood-more-than-he-wan_1283287.jpg) > [Can you find out how owns C and R industries? They bought the old abandoned mental asylum downtown." "That old thing? What…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/darynda-jones/can-you-find-out-how-owns-c-and-r-industries-they-bought-the-old/) [Darynda Jones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/darynda-jones/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c96/darynda-jones-474_abandoned_can-you-find-out-how-owns-c-and-r-indust_1316611.jpg) > [I have one thing to say about the mental asylum. I've romanticized two things in my life, and both have fallen short.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-harbour/i-have-one-thing-to-say-about-the-mental-asylum-i-ve-romanticized-two/) [David Harbour](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-harbour/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6c1/david-harbour-5331_asylum_i-have-one-thing-to-say-about-the-mental_3107624.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/mental-asylum/#itemlist", "name": "Mental Asylum Quotes", "numberOfItems": 7, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Say to a blind man, you’re free, open the door that was separating him from the world, Go, you are free, we tell him once more, and he does not go, he has remained motionless there in the middle of the road, he and the others, they are terrified, they do not know where to go, the fact is that there is no comparison between living in a rational labyrinth, which is, by definition, a mental asylum and venturing forth, without a guiding hand or a dog-leash, into the demented labyrinth of the city, where memory will serve no purpose, for it will merely be able to recall the images of places but not the paths whereby we might get there.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Jose Saramago" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jos-saramago/say-to-a-blind-man-you-re-free-open-the-door-that-was-separating-him/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/830/jos-saramago-208_blind_say-to-a-blind-man-you-re-free-open-the_234552.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/830/jos-saramago-208_blind_say-to-a-blind-man-you-re-free-open-the_234552.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/830/jos-saramago-208_blind_say-to-a-blind-man-you-re-free-open-the_234552.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Say to a blind man, you’re free, open the door that was separating him from the world, Go, you are free, we…” — Jose Saramago", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“I was in a mental asylum? 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