#asylum

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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One of them hasn't got a uniform on or plainclothes either like the rest. He has on the white coat that is my nightmare and my horror. And in the crotch of one arm he is upending two long poles intertwined with canvas. The long-drawn-out death within life. The burial-alive of the mind, covering it over with fresh graveyard earth each time it tries to struggle through to the light. In this kind of death you never finish dying. ("New York Blues") ↗

— Cornell Woolrich

#insanity #mental-illness #death

Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It's a company town, and I happen to like the company! ↗

— Michael Caine

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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

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It's been my policy to view the Internet not as an 'information highway,' but as an electronic asylum filled with babbling loonies. ↗

— Mike Royko

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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

#asylums #away #children #filled #home

I wonder if rooms in an insane asylum have Do Not Disturb signs for the doors. I should hope not, because knock or no knock, every occupant in those rooms is already disturbed.
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— Jarod Kintz

#disturbed #door #doors #hope #hospitality

I, myself, spent 9 years in an insane asylum and never had any suicidal tendencies, but I know that every conversation I had with a psychiatrist during the morning visit made me long to hang myself because I was aware that I could not slit his throat. ↗

— Antonin Artaud

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Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty. ↗

— Samuel Adams

#civil #contest #earth #free #left

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

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