Asylums Quote by Kathy Reichs

“You don’t have to visit an asylum to see insanity. All you have to do is visit Washington DC.”

— Jarod Kintz

“The mad were put in asylums, but the sane are worse off in their offices.”

— Hanif Kureishi

Canada has one of the highest rates of insanity in any civilized country and one reason might be that life in many places is…

— Robertson Davies

“Oh, yes. I've no doubt in my own mind that we have been invited here by a madman-probably a dangerous homicidal lunatic.”

— Agatha Christie

“But who knew what would happen once he got to Canada? Canada with its pacifism and its socialized medicine! Canada with its millions of…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“Sometimes it seems that the world is a very, very, large, insane asylum. We need only not get caught in others’ madness and stick…

— Art Hochberg

“He had to treat him as the maniac he obviously was. The fact that his insanity was dressed in religious trappings meant nothing.”

— Iain M. Banks

“What? And leave him? He was insane.”

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

“I was in a mental asylum? When the fuck did that happen?”

— Darynda Jones

“He’s insane. Not climb the walls and run about naked insane, but mad in worse ways.”

— Frank Tuttle

“Anything goes now, apparently,” Fiedel told me. “The lunatics have taken over the asylum.”

— Charles C. Mann

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…

— Nellie Bly