Asylum Quotes

119 quotes by 97 authors

I think a good scene in a movie would be where one scientist tells another scientist, "You know what will save the world? You're holding… — Jack Handey
Once I talked to the inmates of an insane asylum in Hartford. I have talked to idiots a thousand times, but only once to the… — Mark Twain
I think the big danger of madness is not madness itself, but the habit of madness. What I discovered during the time I spent in… — Paulo Coelho
When commenting on the turmoil and disorder of the world, If the other planets are inhabited, they must be using this earth as their insane… — George Bernard Shaw
...in the midst of migrants in search of a better life there are people in need of protection: refugees and asylum-seekers, women and children victims… — Antonio Guterres
The insane asylum on Blackwellâ€™s Island is a human rat-trap. It is easy to get in, but once there it is impossible to get out. — Nellie Bly
I had, toward the last, been shut off from all visitors, and so when the lawyer, Peter A. Hendricks, came and told me that friends… — Nellie Bly
All the asylum clothing is made by the patients, but sewing does not employ one's mind. After several months' confinement the thoughts of the busy… — Nellie Bly
Let's say you went to Harvard or Oxford or Cambridge, and you said, 'I've come here because I'm in search of morality, guidance and consolation;… — Alain de Botton
Chef cookin for me They say my shoe game crazy The mental asylum lookin for me — Nicki Minaj
Many people think it's in bad taste to advertise for an insane asylum... but come on down. We're going crazy. — Colin Mochrie
The world sometimes feels like an insane asylum. You can decide whether you want to be an inmate or pick up your visitor's badge. You… — Deepak Chopra
When I cease to preach salvation by faith in Jesus put me into a lunatic asylum, for you may be sure that my mind is… — Charles Spurgeon
There is no such thing as a pure extrovert or a pure introvert. Such a man would be in the lunatic asylum. — Carl Jung
A man is called a good fellow for doing things which, if done by a woman, would land her in a lunatic asylum. — H. L. Mencken
The Rogue Film School is not for the faint-hearted. It is for those who have travelled on foot, who have worked as bouncers in sex… — Werner Herzog
Our first responsibility is to protect the American people and we cannot put on blinders to expect that everyone who seeks asylum does so in… — Bill Shuster
I had wished to find in philosophy and religion a remedy for my disgrace; I searched out an asylum to secure me from love... duty,… — Peter Abelard
If you grant asylum to so many refugees, your house may be sacked sooner by the soldiers; I see that clearly. The question is, however,… — Vincent de Paul
The only problem that those people have anyway is that they don't like new cars and hair sprays. That's why they are put away. They… — John Kennedy Toole

Who Wrote These Asylum Quotes

97 authors contributed a total of 119 Asylum Quotes, led by these top contributors: