A Quote by Franz Grillparzer

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

Franz Grillparzer

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Franz Grillparzer
Austrian - Poet
January 15, 1791 - January 21, 1872

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.

Nathaniel Branden

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.

Lin Yutang

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.

Eugene V. Debs

To go into acting is like asking for admission to an insane asylum. Anyone may apply, but only the certifiably insane are admitted.

Michael Shurtleff

Once I talked to the inmates of an insane asylum in Hartford. I have talked to idiots a thousand times, but only once to the insane.

Mark Twain

Earth is the insane asylum of the universe.

Albert Einstein

Society is an insane asylum ran by the inmates.

Erving Goffman

America is an insane asylum run by the inmates.

Lester Roloff

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

Wes Craven

When majority is insane, sane must go to asylum.

Mark Twain

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

Antonin Artaud

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?