{"quotes":[{"text":"It’s so easy to believe that others deserve their fate, and the fact was that if nobody bothered to help other people then the worst would always happen… She stares out of her window at the busy street, where the British go about their daily business, taking it for granted that they will never be arrested for not voting the right way, praying the right way, dressing the right way or for belonging to a different tribe.","author":"Amanda Craig","tags":["asylum","britain","freedom","gratitude","massacre","migrant","refuge","safety"],"id":64765,"author_id":"Amanda+Craig"},{"text":"Don't let the rain drive you to the wrong shelter; the shade can turn out to be your protector and also your destroyer, and sometimes the rain is the perfect protector from the rain.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["asylum","believe-in-yourself","calm","calmness","destroyer","dream","dreams","escape","food-for-thought","fright","hideout","journey","michael-bassey-johnson","patience","perfect","protect","protection","rain","refuge","regret","responsibility","running-away","scary","shade","shelter","stay-calm","storm","trembling","umbrella","wrong"],"id":83071,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"One of them hasn't got a uniform on or plainclothes either like the rest. He has on the white coat that is my nightmare and my horror. And in the crotch of one arm he is upending two long poles intertwined with canvas.The long-drawn-out death within life. The burial-alive of the mind, covering it over with fresh graveyard earth each time it tries to struggle through to the light. In this kind of death you never finish dying.('New York Blues').","author":"Cornell Woolrich","tags":["asylum","insanity","mental-illness"],"id":84963,"author_id":"Cornell+Woolrich"},{"text":"One either cares what others think about him, or cares what others think he thinks about them. If you want to find someone who doesn't care in the slightest what anyone thinks, try a lunatic asylum.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["asylum","brain","care","cognition","compassion","crazy","empathy","honest","hospital","insane","insecurity","lunatic","mental","mental-hospital","pity","psychology","psychopath","sane","security","sociopath","sympathy","think"],"id":146301,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"It goes so fast, he thought, they don't tell you that, how fast it goes...","author":"S.E. Hinton","tags":["asylum","classic","dark","emotional","life","mental-hospital","vampire"],"id":157264,"author_id":"S.E.+Hinton"},{"text":"They had engaged in what could not be called treatment or even discussion, but open combat, the two of them a microcosm of the great war raging in the far distance: one side that desired autonomy, and the other that took independence as a sign of madness.","author":"Kathy Hepinstall","tags":["asylum","inspirational","war"],"id":188554,"author_id":"Kathy+Hepinstall"},{"text":"It's an unfortunate word, 'depression', because the illness has nothing to do with feeling sad, sadness is on the human palette. Depression is a whole other beast. It's when your old personality has left town and been replaced by a block of cement with black tar oozing through your veins and mind. This is when you can't decide whether to get a manicure or jump off a cliff. It's all the same. When I was institutionalised I sat on a chair unable to move for three months, frozen in fear. To take a shower was inconceivable. What made it tolerable was while I was inside, I found my tribe - my people. They understood and unlike those who don't suffer, never get bored of you asking if it will ever go away? They can talk medication all hours, day and night; heaven to my ears.","author":"Ruby Wax","tags":["asylum","crazy","depressed","depression","depressive","discrimination","hospital","major-depression","mental-health-stigma","mental-hospital","mental-illness","prejudice","stigma"],"id":212711,"author_id":"Ruby+Wax"},{"text":"For those of you who may be homeschooled: high school is that four-year asylum where they put teenagers because we have no idea what else to do with them.","author":"Anthony M. Esolen","tags":["asylum","autodidact","autodidactism","education","high-school","homeschooling","reform","sad-truth","school","standardized-testing","standardized-tests","teenagers","teens","unschooling","young-people","youth"],"id":242453,"author_id":"Anthony+M.+Esolen"},{"text":"Addy, living one day without you would never be for the best. I want you every minute of every day. Forever. I love you.","author":"Lauren Hammond","tags":["asylum","damien","insanity","lauren-hammond","love"],"id":254052,"author_id":"Lauren+Hammond"},{"text":"God judges men from the inside out; men judge men from the outside in. Perhaps to God, an extreme mental patient is doing quite well in going a month without murder, for he fought his chemical imbalance and succeeded; oppositely, perhaps the healthy, able and stable man who has never murdered in his life yet went a lifetime consciously, willingly never loving anyone but himself may then be subject to harsher judgment than the extreme mental patient. It might be so that God will stand for the weak and question the strong.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["apologetics","arrogance","asylum","awareness","brain","chemical-imbalance","cognition","confession","crazy","crime","discernment","ego","evil","forgiveness","god","good","good-and-evil","grace","guilt","health","healthy","heart","humility","hypocrisy","ill","immorality","insane","instability","judgment","law","liability","love","lovelessness","mental-patient","mentally-ill","mercy","mind","morality","murder","narcissism","pharisee","philosophy","pride","psycho","psychology","psychopath","punishment","repentance","resistance","righteous","sane","self-righteous","self-worship","selfishness","sickness","sin","soul","stability","strength","temptation","theology","weakness","wisdom"],"id":261493,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":28,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}