Asylums Quote by Antonin Artaud Download Open image “There is nothing like an insane asylum for gently incubating death.” — Antonin Artaud ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Asylums Death Insane Insane asylum
“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 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
The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people, but if we tried to shut up the insane we should run… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When I was a child, I felt at times that I had been born into an insane asylum, that much of human life appeared… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Of all the calamities to which humanity is subject, none is so dreadful as insanity. ... All experience shows that insanity seasonably treated is… — Dorothea Dix Copy Share Image
There is no insanity so devastating in man's life as utter sanity. — William Allen White Copy Share Image
In the West, the insane are so many that they are put in an asylum, in China the insane are so unusual that we… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
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… — Nellie Bly Copy Share Image
Live in robust sanity, in holy obedience to the ordinary." (The Message) "In an insane asylum like the world, simple sanity can be a… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Only the insane have strength enough to survive. Only the survivors determine what is sane. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows. — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
“This is why a tainted society has invented psychiatry to defend itself against the investigations of certain superior intellects whose faculties of divination would… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
“I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with… — Antonin Artaud 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 and hybrid… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
How hard is it, when everything encourages us to sleep, though we may look about us with conscious, clinging eyes, to wake and yet… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
This is why true beauty never strikes us directly. The setting sun is beautiful because of all it makes us lose. — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
And what is an authentic madman? It is a man who preferred to become mad, in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
The truth of life lies in the impulsiveness of matter. The mind of man has been poisoned by concepts. Do not ask him to… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
All writing is garbage. People who come out of nowhere to try and put into words any part of what goes on in their… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
Squander your riches far from this unfeeling body to which no season, either spiritual or sensual, makes any difference. — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
The race of prophets is extinct. Europe is becoming set in its ways, slowly embalming itself beneath the wrappings of its borders, its factories,… — Antonin Artaud 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 one child.… — Ed Koch Copy Share Image
3 people get stranded on a remote Island A Banker, a Daily Mail reader & an Asylum seeker All they have to eat is… — Christopher Brookmyre 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 attempt against… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
Let us leave the EEC, abolish human rights laws, take TV sets, pool tables and phones out of prisons, bring back corporal and capital… — Ken Bates Copy Share Image
I rejoice that liberty . . . now finds an asylum in the bosom of a regularly organized government; a government, which, being formed… — George Washington 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,' and some… — William Wells Brown Copy Share Image
The lunatics have taken over the asylum and we can do anything we want. — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
We cannot possibly take them all into this country [asylum seekers] - it is a completely unrealistic expectation. — Michael Howard 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 to like… — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
I decided that we'd have to take our chances with the law and get the hell out of Baltimore. I thought of seeking asylum… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
