Asylum Quotes

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It's been my policy to view the Internet not as an 'information highway,' but as an electronic asylum filled with babbling loonies. — Mike Royko
An asylum for the sane would be empty in America. — George Bernard Shaw
The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place. — Robert W. Welch, Jr.
Yesterday's news feeds our fear that our neighbours are more likely than not to be bad eggs: benefit fraudsters, bogus asylum seekers, paedophiles or jihadist… — Julian Baggini
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
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 of life. Idiot,… — Soren Kierkegaard
Louisiana is a fresh-air mental asylum. — James Lee Burke
For me, stripping was an unusual kind of escape. I had nothing to escape but privilege, but I claimed asylum anyway. At twenty-four, it was… — Diablo Cody
I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum — George Bernard Shaw
Imagine, [Kriezler] said, that you enter a large, somewhat crumbling hall that echoes with the sounds of people mumbling and talking repetitively to themselves. All… — Caleb Carr
When Å vejk subsequently described life in the lunatic asylum, he did so in exceptionally eulogistic terms: 'I really don't know why those loonies get so… — Jaroslav HaÅ¡ek
Death, of course, is a refuge. It's where you go when a new name, or a mask and cape, can no longer hide you from… — Chris Cleave
...it seemed to me I was living in an insane asylum of my own making. I wnt about with all these fantastic figures: centaurs, nymphs,… — Carl Jung
Earth is the insane asylum of the universe. — Albert Einstein
Oh, yes! Fill the churches with dirty thoughts! Introduce honesty to the White House! Write letters in dead languages to people you've never met! Paint… — Grant Morrison
If thereâ€™s life on other planets, then the earth is the Universeâ€™s insane asylum. — Voltaire
We did just leave an insane asylum,â€ Hi agreed. â€œFor all we know, Chance spend his nights dancing naked with sock puppets, plotting to invade… — Kathy Reichs
Beginning with a critique of my own limbs, which she said, justly enough, were nothing to write home about, this girl went on to dissect… — P.G. Wodehouse
When majority is insane, sane must go to asylum. — Mark Twain
Afraid? Batman's not afraid of anything. It's me. I'm afraid. I'm afraid that The Joker may be right about me. Sometimesâ€¦I question the rationality of… — Grant Morrison

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