Lunatic Asylum Quotes

It (masturbation) is called … ‘beastliness’, and this is about the best name for it…. Should it become a habit, it quickly destroys both health and spirits; he becomes feeble in body and mind, and often ends up in a lunatic asylum.

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

America is a lunatic asylum.

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.

The Emperor Francis is already ill. The other leaders [of the nation] are all mad and belong in the lunatic asylum.

There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum.

I shouldn't make movies anymore. I should go to a lunatic asylum.

It seems as though I were in a lunatic asylum, but I am never sure who is the attendant and who the inmate.

When I cease to preach salvation by faith in Jesus put me into a lunatic asylum, for you may be sure that my mind is gone.

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.

No, I won't leave the world--I'll enter a lunatic asylum and see if the profundity of insanity reveals to me the riddles of life. Idiot, why didn't I do that long ago, why has it taken me so long to understand what it means when the Indians honour the insane, step aside for them? Yes, a lunatic asylum--don't you think I may end up there?

When I was a visitor to a lunatic asylum I always noticed how well the worst lunatics looked.

The world is becoming like a lunatic asylum run by lunatics.

I wasn't inspired by lunatic asylums or anything like that.

The universities are a sort of lunatic asylum for keeping young men out of mischief.

Had there been a Lunatic Asylum in the suburbs of Jerusalem, Jesus Christ would infallibly have been shut up in it at the outset of his public career. That interview with Satan on a pinnacle of the Temple would alone have damned him, and everything that happened after could have confirmed the diagnosis. The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a Lunatic Asylum.