Kirkbride Quotes

“There is no reason why an individual, who has the misfortune to become insane, should, on that account, be deprived of any comfort or even luxury...”
― Thomas Story Kirkbride

“Indeed, some of the buildings were gargantuan: Greystone Park State Hospital, which opened in 1876 as the New Jersey State Asylum for the Insane at Morristown, was purported to have the largest continuous foundation in the United States, surpassed only by the Pentagon some seventy-seven years later.”
― Oliver Sacks, Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals