Asylums Quote by Nellie Bly

But here let me say one thing: From the moment I entered the insane ward on the Island, I made no attempt to keep…

— Nellie Bly

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…

— Ric Ocasek

I have one thing to say about the mental asylum. I've romanticized two things in my life, and both have fallen short. One is…

— David Harbour

Society is an insane asylum ran by the inmates.

— Erving Goffman

There is nothing like an insane asylum for gently incubating death.

— Antonin Artaud

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…

— Ric Ocasek

The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place.

— Robert W. Welch, Jr

Madness is the emergency exit. You can just step outside, and close the door on all those dreadful things that happened. You can lock…

— Alan Moore

When I was a child, I felt at times that I had been born into an insane asylum, that much of human life appeared…

— Nathaniel Branden

Madness is the emergency exit. You can just step outside, and close the door on all those dreadful things that happened. Forever.

— Alan Moore

For eight years I was an inmate in a state asylum for the insane. During those years I passed through such unbearable terror that…

— Frances Farmer

Asylums are nothing more than gardens of human cabbages, of miserable, grotesque, repugnant human beings watered with the fertilizer of injections.

— Antonio Lobo Antunes