Asylum Quotes

119 quotes by 97 authors

Many sensible things banished from high life find an asylum among the mob. — Herman Melville
When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic… — Henry Ward Beecher
In the West, the insane are so many that they are put in an asylum, in China the insane are so unusual that we worship… — Lin Yutang
If artists do see fields blue they are deranged, and should go to an asylum. If they only pretend to see them blue, they are… — Adolf Hitler
Civilization today reminds me of an ape with a blowtorch playing in a room full of dynamite. It looks like the monkeys are about to… — Vance Havner
I always had a desire to know asylum life more thoroughly - a desire to be convinced that the most helpless of God's creatures, the… — Nellie Bly
The Daily Mail can't say 'asylum-seeker' without saying 'foreign criminal' in the same sentence. I'm sure it's practically editorial policy. — Chris Cleave
[Death is] the best asylum for pains and sorrows and troubles and the injustices of life. — Sadegh Hedayat
Our asylum system is sick. — Romano L. Mazzoli
To the artist, the forest is an asylum of peace and dancing shadows. — John F. Carlson
What every prime minister struggles with and every leader struggles with is how to balance the two objectives; firstly that of ensuring that all asylum… — Malcolm Turnbull
The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum. — Havelock Ellis
I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum. — Bobby Fischer
I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word. — A. E. Housman
My own view is that this planet is used as a penal colony, lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a superior civilisation, to get rid… — Christopher Hitchens
Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age… — Soren Kierkegaard
Being born into the Royal Family is like being born into a mental asylum. Marrying into it is not something to be taken lightly. — John Lydon
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. — Friedrich Nietzsche
My 'go to' workout is called the Asylum from Beach Body. It's intense training with lots of intervals, core work. It's hard! I travel a… — Apolo Ohno
The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum. — Thomas Paine

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