Asylums Quotes

131 Asylums quotes by 103 unique authors

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
This stuff they are talking here in Congress costs the people of the United States $44 a page. That's beside what it costs to ship… — Will Rogers
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
If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers. — E. W. Howe
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
We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and… — Madeleine L'Engle
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
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
I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe not all that… — Stephen King
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

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