« All Insane Quotes · Nellie Bly's Page
Insane Quotes by Nellie Bly
- COULD I PASS A WEEK IN THE INSANE WARD AT BLACKWELL'S ISLAND? I SAID I COULD AND I WOULD. AND I DID.
- The insane asylum on Blackwell’s Island is a human rat-trap. It is easy to get in, but once there it is impossible to get out.
- But here let me say one thing: From the moment I entered the insane ward on the Island, I made no attempt to keep up…
- I had never been near insane persons before in my life, and had not the faintest idea of what their actions were like
- I shuddered to think how completely the insane were in the power of their keepers, and how one could weep and plead for release, and…
- 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…
More Insane Quotes
- North Korea is not an insane nation. It is not a crazy nation. — Richard Armitage
- I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each… — Antonin Artaud
- The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks… — Marcus Aurelius
- It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take… — Emilie Autumn
- When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a… — James A. Baldwin
- It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty… — Honore de Balzac
- No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions. — Henry Ward Beecher
- There are four kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy. — Ambrose Bierce
- Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. — Ambrose Bierce
- An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me. — Ambrose Bierce
- Insane sects grow with the same rhythm as big organizations. It is the rhythm of total destruction. — Theodor Adorno
- I've got stuff about airline mergers, which just shows that my stand-up is getting more insane by the minute. — Lewis Black