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Definition of Asylum
Asylum

A sanctuary or place of refuge and protection, where criminals and debtors found shelter, and from which they could not be forcibly taken without sacrilege.

Any place of retreat and security.

An institution for the protection or relief of some class of destitute, unfortunate, or afflicted persons; as, an asylum for the aged, for the blind, or for the insane; a lunatic asylum; an orphan asylum.

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Asylum Quotations

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

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.
George Bernard Shaw

All the asylum clothing is made by the patients, but sewing does not employ one's mind. After several months' confinement the thoughts of the busy world grow faint, and all the poor prisoners can do is to sit and ponder over their hopeless fate.
Nellie Bly

I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat.
Antonin Artaud

The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.
Thomas Paine

Asylum Translations

asylum in Afrikaans is toevlugsoord
asylum in Danish is asyl
asylum in Dutch is toevluchtsoord, asiel, asyl
asylum in French is asile
asylum in German is Asyl {n}, Asyl {n}, Heim {n}
asylum in Italian is asilo
asylum in Norwegian is asyl
asylum in Spanish is asilo, asilo
asylum in Swedish is asyl


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