Bedlam House/Quotes

"Another unfortunate casualty to tide of time: Insane Asylums. I lament their loss, not only as brokerage houses for the bredth and depth of human psychosis, but also I shall mourn the disappearance of the peculiar environment present only in an insane asylum: that palpable atmosphere of blistered brains and churning bowels, the odiferous deluge of freely flowing bodily humors, that gently rolling cacophony of distant sobs and screams, the muttered cursing of perceived enemies and the blissful gurgling of the lobotomized. Like a new born babe discovering the sky."

—Alistair Grout, Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines

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

—Friedrich Nietzsche ^[1]

(Sung to the tune of Away in a Manger)
Away in a madhouse, confined to my bed
From visions and nightmares that filled me with dread
The doctor has sweetly inserted a probe
To sever completely my pre-frontal lobe!
Electroshock therapy, mind-numbing pills
They change my behavior to cure all my ills
I love the asylum, My own padded cell

I'll stay here forever for outside is hell!—The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society

Homer Simpson: Be quiet or we'll put you in a home.
Abraham Simpson: You already put me in a home!
Homer Simpson: Then we'll put you in that crooked home we saw on Sixty Minutes.

Abraham Simpson: [Pathetically] I'll be good.

—The Simpsons

"I'm used to the dark, but this feels like a house full of bad dreams."

—Garrett about the Shalebridge Cradle, Thief : Deadly Shadows

↑ He was eventually thrown into one. Sure it's not a Bedlam House per se, but think about how low the knowledge of mental health was before.

[1] He was eventually thrown into one. Sure it's not a Bedlam House per se, but think about how low the knowledge of mental health was before.

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