#asylum

They had engaged in what could not be called treatment or even discussion, but open combat, the two of them a microcosm of the great war raging in the far distance: one side that desired autonomy, and the other that took independence as a sign of madness. ↗

— Kathy Hepinstall

#inspirational #war #inspirational

It goes so fast, he thought, they don't tell you that, how fast it goes... ↗

— S.E. Hinton

#classic #dark #emotional #life #mental-hospital

He mouths something. Six words. Six words that seem too impossible to be true. Six words that bleed hope into my soul. Six words. “You’re not crazy. I love you. ↗

— Lauren Hammond

#insanity #love

Addy, living one day without you would never be for the best. I want you every minute of every day. Forever. I love you. ↗

— Lauren Hammond

#damien #insanity #lauren-hammond #love #love

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

— Robert Welch

#country #insane #letting #patients #place

I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum. ↗

— Bobby Fischer

#government #grants #hope #i #me

The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#flourishes #lunatic #most #optimism #place

My own view is that this planet is used as a penal colony, lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a superior civilisation, to get rid of the undesirable and unfit. I can't prove it, but you can't disprove it either. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#civilisation #colony #disprove #dumping #either

I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word. ↗

— A. E. Housman

#cambridge #every #find #i #sense

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

#asylum #country #drift #innocent #insane