Insane Asylum Quotes

• 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

  Funny, Mother, Children

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• The world sometimes feels like an insane asylum. You can decide whether you want to be an inmate or pick up your visitor's badge. You can be in the world but not engage in the melodrama of it; you can become a spiritual being having a human experience thoroughly and fully.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Insane, World

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• Earth is an insane asylum, to which the other planets deport their lunatics.

  Voltaire

  Insanity, Bipolar, Insane

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• Earth is the insane asylum of the universe.

  Albert Einstein

  Insane, Earth, Asylums

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

  Antonin Artaud

  Insane, Asylums

  Antonin Artaud (1995). “Watchfiends & Rack Screams: Works from the Final Period”

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• America is an insane asylum run by the inmates.

  Lester Roloff

  Running, Crazy, Usa

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• 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.

  Nellie Bly

  Islands, Insane, Asylums

  Nellie Bly (2015). “The Collected Works of Nellie Bly (Annotated)”, p.87, Golgotha Press

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

  Robert W. Welch, Jr.

  Letting Go, Running, Country

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• Many people think it's in bad taste to advertise for an insane asylum... but come on down. We're going crazy.

  Colin Mochrie

  Crazy, Thinking, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Funny, Faith, Witty

  "The Antichrist". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, 1888.

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• I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat.

  Antonin Artaud

  Suicide, Time, Morning

  "Van Gogh, the Man Suicided by Society". Essay by Antonin Artaud, 1947.

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• 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 into themselves at all.

  Arthur Miller

  Country, People, Insane

  "With respect for Her Agony - but with Love" in LIFE magazine, February 7, 1964.

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• Society is an insane asylum ran by the inmates.

  Erving Goffman

  Insane, Inmates, Asylums

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• 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 insane, were cared for kindly and properly.

  Nellie Bly

  Insane, Desire, Asylums

  Nellie Bly (2015). “The Collected Works of Nellie Bly (Annotated)”, p.6, Golgotha Press

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• I do not oppose the insane asylum - but I abhor and condemn the cutthroat system that robs man of his reason, drives him to insanity and makes the lunatic asylum an indispensable adjunct to every civilized community.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Men, Community, Insanity

  "What's the Matter with Chicago?" by Eugene V. Debs in "Chicago Socialist", www.marxists.org. October 25, 1902.

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• If there’s life on other planets, then the earth is the Universe’s insane asylum.

  Voltaire

  Insane, Earth, Asylums

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• I think there was no other profession for me. I was either going into an insane asylum or to be an actor.

  Olivia Wilde

  Thinking, Insane, Actors

  "Interview with Jonathan Tucker and Olivia Wilde of The Black Donnellys". Conference call Interview, insidepulse.com. March 11, 2007.

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• Let's say you went to Harvard or Oxford or Cambridge, and you said, 'I've come here because I'm in search of morality, guidance and consolation; I want to know how to live,' - they would show you the way to the insane asylum.

  Alain de Botton

  Motivation, Inspiration, Oxford

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• South Carolina is too small for a republic and too large for an insane asylum.

  James L. Petigru

  War, Insane, Republic

  "Too large to be an asylum". Post and Courier, February 13, 2010.

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• Once I talked to the inmates of an insane asylum in Hartford. I have talked to idiots a thousand times, but only once to the insane.

  Mark Twain

  Insanity, Crazy People, Insane

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• All boys belong in insane asylums.

  Brandon Mull

  Boys, Insane, Asylums

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• When commenting on the turmoil and disorder of the world, If the other planets are inhabited, they must be using this earth as their insane asylum.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Insanity, Insane, World

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• 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 answer. If I did there would be no insane asylums. But I see a lot of people, a lot of my friends in the same predicament. Many times in my life, I was there myself.

  Ric Ocasek

  People, Insanity, Insane

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• The employment of children is doing more to fill prisons, insane asylums, almshouses, reformatories, slums, and gin shops than all the efforts of reformers are doing to improve society.

  Mother Jones

  Children, Effort, Insane

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• 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 he was himself an inmate.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Birthday, Dream, Time

  Soren Kierkegaard (1946). “Either/or”

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