#insane

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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

Alcohol ruined me financially and morally, broke my heart and the hearts of too many others. Even though it did this to me and it almost killed me and I haven't touched a drop of it in seventeen years, sometimes I wonder if I could get away with drinking some now. I totally subscribe to the notion that alcoholism is a mental illness because thinking like that is clearly insane.


Craig Ferguson


#alcoholism #drinking #heartbreak #insane #mental-illness

But, gee," the other nurse says, "what on earth would MAKE a man want to do something like disrupt the ward for, Miss Ratched? What possible motive...?" "You seem to forget, MISS Flinn, that this is an institution for the insane.


Ken Kesey


#ken-kesey #one-flew-over-the-cuckoo-s-nest #motivational

Yeah, we’ll call you,” muttered Ron as the knight disappeared, “if we ever need someone mental.


J.K. Rowling


#ron-weasley #prison

Insane sects grow with the same rhythm as big organizations. It is the rhythm of total destruction.


Theodor Adorno


#destruction #grow #insane #organizations #rhythm

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


#asylum #conversation #cut #each #every

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.


Marcus Aurelius


#finding #insane #life #majority #object

I like men who are very cool but who are also so brilliant that they are almost insane. Sean Penn, Gary Oldman, Bob Dylan, Tom Waits - men who would be flipping burgers if they hadn't found an outlet for their brilliant mind-sets.


Jolene Blalock


#also #bob #bob dylan #brilliant #cool

Because artists can be extremely eccentric and insane, and unfortunately, the people they hurt the most are the people that are closest to them.


Maynard James Keenan


#because #closest #eccentric #extremely #hurt

When do you know you're insane? And when do you known you're sane? I think I treat a fine line between the two. It's a battle to function, but somehow I manage.


Siobhan Fahey


#between #do you know #fine #fine line #function