Dorothea Dix Quotes

Lord keep her safe since you can't keep her sane.

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.

The jails and prisons are the new insane asylums. That’s what we are.

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.

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.

Even the company of the mad was better than the company of the dead.

I think the big danger of madness is not madness itself, but the habit of madness. What I discovered during the time I spent in the asylum is that I could choose madness and spend my whole life without working, doing nothing, pretending to be mad. It was a very strong temptation.

I’ve known a lot of people go mad over the years, and it is more distressing than people dying. People dying is quite natural, people going mad is the complete antithesis of that.

Awareness of insanity does not make one any less insane. Awareness of drowning does not make one any less of a drowning person--it only adds the burden of panic

And men, whose reason long was blind, From cells of madness unconfined, Oft lose whole years of darker mind.

She didn't quite know what the relationship was between lunatics and the moon, but it must be a strong one, if they used a word like that to describe the insane.

We believe that unless we give opportunity to the strong and able, we shall never have the means to provide real protection for the weak and the old.

In the West, the insane are so many that they are put in an asylum, in China the insane are so unusual that we worship them.

Our prisons are full of people who think they're Napoleon..or God.

I'm insane, not forgetful.

Lots of people say if you dredge too much stuff up, you'll go crazy - "You'll go insane!" But for a comedian, insanity is not a problem. It's a goal.

Insanity is a legal term. Crazy is an art form.

Men are mad and gods are madder, she told the grass, and the grass murmured its agreement.

I thought you were sane," I said, "but you're just as crazy as the rest of them.

Acid gave me a clinical, unblinking look at madness, and I discovered I wasn't brave enough to be insane.

A lot of the time I'm semi-insane, but there is a slight bit of intelligence there.

When majority is insane, sane must go to asylum.

Literature doesn’t exactly have a strong mental-health track record.

The mad also laugh, or is that what Freud and the others discovered perhaps, that only the mad laugh?

Dearly departed, scarcely lamented, deeply demented.