Leo Tolstoy
Novelist, Philosopher
"Dear Lord, what a madhouse the world is!"
Madhouses quotes
Madhouses
5 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Anna Freud
Psychoanalyst
"A first visit to a madhouse is always a shock."
Grant Morrison
Comic Book Writer, Novelist
"I run blindly through the madhouse ... And I cannot even pray ... For I have no God."
Charles Bukowski
Poet, Novelist
"Basically, that's why I wrote: to save my ass, to save my ass from the madhouse, from the streets, from myself."
Jack Kerouac
Novelist, Poet
"Between incomprehensible and incoherent sits the madhouse. I am not in the madhouse."
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