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Asylum Quotes

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Sarah Kane
“There's not a drug on earth can make life meaningful”
Sarah Kane, 4.48 Psychosis

Lauren Hammond
“Addy, living one day without you would never be for the best. I want you every minute of every day. Forever. I love you.”
Lauren Hammond, Insanity

S.E. Hinton
“It goes so fast, he thought, they don't tell you that, how fast it goes...”
S.E. Hinton, Hawkes Harbor

“The asylum, and later the national health service, warehoused thousands of patients made mad by the intrusions of a sexual predator. But these institutions had been dominated by the discredited Freudian fantasy that sexual abuse doesn’t happen - that it is our illicit desires that drive us crazy. A century ago, Freud recoiled from his own theory of the sexual seduction of children and projected the problem back into the patient. He claimed in his Aetiology of Hysteria that clients, typically women, were describing their fantasies, not facts, not ‘real eventsâ€�. P3”
Beatrix Campbell, Stolen Voices: The People and Politics Behind the Campaign to Discredit Childhood Testimony

Cornell Woolrich
“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")”
Cornell Woolrich, Night and Fear: A Centenary Collection of Stories by Cornell Woolrich

S.E. Hinton
“He'll have to do without me, Jamie thought, not looking back. And then clearly, as if he'd been told, he knew Grenville /could/ do without him. There was somewhere else he had to go now, somewhere else he had to be.”
S.E. Hinton , Hawkes Harbor

Richard von Weizsäcker
“Wenn wir uns erinnern, wie rassisch, religiös und politisch Verfolgte, die vom sicheren Tod bedroht waren, oft vor geschlossenen Grenzen anderer Staaten standen, werden wir vor denen, die heute wirklich verfolgt sind und bei uns Schutz suchen, die Tür nicht verschließen."


Richard von Weizsäcker

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