Insane Asylum Quotes

'Wicked Nights' is the story of Zacharel, the new leader of the Army of Disgrace - heavenly warriors in danger of falling from grace - and Annabelle, a human who has spent the last four years locked in an institution for the criminally insane.

When I was a child, I felt at times that I had been born into an insane asylum, that much of human life appeared to be an insane asylum. It was bewildering.

Continuous use [of marijuana] leads directly to the insane asylum.

The world sometimes feels like an insane asylum. You can decide whether you want to be an inmate or pick up your visitor's badge. You can be in the world but not engage in the melodrama of it; you can become a spiritual being having a human experience thoroughly and fully.

Could I pass a week in the insane ward at Blackwell's Island? I said I could and I would. And I did.

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

South Carolina is too small for a republic and too large for an insane asylum.

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.

I chose the name "Padded Room," because, when I'm in the booth, it would be the padded room. When I'm in the booth, I can say a lot of things and speak about a lot of things that normally I wouldn't be able to speak about to a friend or to family or to a crowd. A lot of times, the things that I say, if you had to categorize it, they would probably call me nuts or crazy. So, you add that aspect of "The Padded Room," which would be almost like an insane asylum.

Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum.

I am president of Congress, not the director of an insane asylum.

Many people think it's in bad taste to advertise for an insane asylum... but come on down. We're going crazy.

Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

Bedlam: an institution with a history so fearsome it gave its name to a synonym for chaos and pandemonium.

The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people, but if we tried to shut up the insane we should run out of building materials.

Washington is too small to be a nation but too large to be an insane asylum.

All I'm doing is rearranging the curtains in the insane asylum.

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!

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

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.

While 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, as anybody who has a knowledge of Chinese literature will testify.

I think there was no other profession for me. I was either going into an insane asylum or to be an actor.

We did just leave an insane asylum,” Hi agreed. “For all we know, Chance spend his nights dancing naked with sock puppets, plotting to invade Canada.

The one argument in favor of the saloon is that the taxes from the saloon are needed. You show me communities where they have none, where the taxation, my friends, is higher than in communities where they have. Everybody with a scintilla of decency and brains knows that it is the saloon that raises the rate of taxation in the country all over. Seventy-five per cent of our idiots came from intemperate parents, and there are more insane people in the United States, made insane by drink, than there are students in the universities and colleges. One out of every three hundred and eighty-three in Pennsylvania in 1911 were either in the insane asylum or the home for feeble-minded, and New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Illinois are the worst whisky-dominated, whisky-damned and whisky-controlled states in the Union; and there is no state in the Union where the liquor interests are more strongly allied and entrenched than they are in the state of New York.

[Characterizing Washington DC:] It's some sort of incestuous insane asylum where they just keep saying the same thing.