It's a queer sensation, this secret belief that one stands on the brink of the world's greatest catastrophe. For it means the fall... of Western Europe, as it fell in the fourth century. It recurs to me every November, and culminates every December. I have to get over it as I can, and hide, for fear of being sent to an asylum.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
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 p...sychiatrist, 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.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The wisest among us is very lucky never to have met the woman, be she beautiful or ugly, intelligent or stupid, who could drive hi...m crazy enough to be fit to be put into an asylum.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The only asylum Was the poorhouse, and those who could afford,... Rather than send their folks to such a place, Kept them at home; and it does seem more human. But it's not so: the place is the asylum. There they have every means proper to do with, And you aren't darkening other people's lives....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
An earthly dog of the carriage breed; Who, having failed of the modern speed,... Now asked asylum and I was stirred To be the one so dog-preferred.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The most threatened group in human societies as in animal societies is the unmated male: the unmated male is more likely to wind u...p in prison or in an asylum or dead than his mated counterpart. He is less likely to be promoted at work and he is considered a poor credit risk.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
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 hi...mself an inmate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A hermitage in the forest is the refuge of the narrow-minded misanthrope; a hammock on the ocean is the asylum for the generous di...stressed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »