Asylums Quotes

131 Asylums quotes by 103 unique authors

We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people, but if we tried to shut up the insane we should run out… — Mark Twain
I think there was no other profession for me. I was either going into an insane asylum or to be an actor. — Olivia Wilde
I shouldn't make movies anymore. I should go to a lunatic asylum. — Werner Herzog
I do not oppose the insane asylum â€” but I abhor and condemn the cutthroat system that robs man of his reason, drives him to… — Eugene V. Debs
What is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum? These people drift through life truly innocent, unable to see… — Arthur Miller
They're caught where there's no way out or where you can't see out. What are you going to do about it? I don't have the… — Ric Ocasek
I think Hollywood has a class system. The actors are like the inmates, but the truth is they're running the asylum. — Robert De Niro
The world is becoming like a lunatic asylum run by lunatics. — David Lloyd George
If I were to say what I really think I would be arrested or shut away in a lunatic asylum. Come on, I am sure… — Roberto Bolano
In a face, look for the main light and the main shadow; the rest will come naturally â€” it's often not important. And then you… — Edouard Manet
The most threatened group in human societies as in animal societies is the unmated male: the unmated male is more likely to wind up in… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
South Carolina is too small for a republic and too large for an insane asylum. — Unknown Author
If we, who live outside asylums, act as if we lived in a fictitious world- that is to say, if we are consistent with our… — Alfred Korzybski
Most of the people who are coming to Australia by boat have passed through several countries on the way, and if they simply wanted asylum… — Tony Abbott
Had there been a Lunatic Asylum in the suburbs of Jerusalem, Jesus Christ would infallibly have been shut up in it at the outset of… — Havelock Ellis
May our land be a land of liberty, the seat of virtue, the asylum of the oppressed, a name and a praise in the whole… — Joseph Warren
We realize we can't go around saying and doing what we're actually thinking and feeling. If we all did that, life would be a lunatic… — Robert McKee
In the early days of his reign, Bismarck confided to a friend that it would some day be necessary for Germany to confine William II… — Kelly Miller
To go into acting is like asking for admission to an insane asylum. Anyone may apply, but only the certifiably insane are admitted. — Michael Shurtleff

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