25 Quotes About Asylums

Being bored is the price we pay for not being insane.

Looking back at the years I spent in the asylums, I’m now convinced some of that insanity rubbed off onto me!

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

In that hospital they don't bury the dead, they keep them in rooms and talk to them.

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

I would be happy to accept asylum, political asylum, in India a nation I love. In return, I will bring Mayawati a range of the finest British footwear.

Lawsuits generally originate with the obstinate and the ignorant, but they do not end with them; and that lawyer was right who left all his money to the support of an asylum for fools and lunatics, saying that from such he got it, and to such he would bequeath it.

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.

For me, stripping was an unusual kind of escape. I had nothing to escape but privilege, but I claimed asylum anyway. At twenty-four, it was my last chance to reject something and become nothing. I wanted to terrify myself. Mission accomplished.