11 Nellie Bly Quotes for You to Enjoy

Nellie Bly

American Journalist

Born: May 5, 1864

Died: Jan 27, 1922

Always Been Came Life Me World

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What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They live, breathe, eat; the human form is there, but that something, which the body can live without, but which cannot exist without the body, was missing. Nellie Bly

Silence Madness Live Eat Something Mysterious Missing Without Perpetual Exist Forever Lips Human Patients Form Cannot Which Breathe Human Form Body Sealed Whose Thing Watched

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

Thoughts World Fate Mind Made Hopeless Sit Busy Months Several Sewing Asylum Over Faint Employ Does Prisoners Patients Confinement Clothing After Ponder Poor Grow

How can a doctor judge a woman's sanity by merely bidding her good morning and refusing to hear her pleas for release? Even the sick ones know it is useless to say anything, for the answer will be that it is their imagination. Nellie Bly

Good Morning Woman Doctor Judge Will Imagination Sick Say Release Good Morning Merely Know Bidding Answer How Hear Refusing Anything Sanity Useless Even Her

Even that was all consumed after two days, and the patients had to try to choke down fresh fish, just boiled in water, without salt, pepper or butter; mutton, beef, and potatoes without the faintest seasoning. Nellie Bly

Could I pass a week in the insane ward at Blackwell's Island? I said I could and I would. And I did. Nellie Bly

Insane Would Week Could Island Pass Said Did Ward

People in the world can never imagine the length of days to those in asylums. They seemed never ending, and we welcomed any event that might give us something to think about as well as talk of. Nellie Bly

I hardly expected the grand jury to sustain me, after they saw everything different from what it had been while I was there. Yet they did, and their report to the court advises all the changes made that I had proposed. Nellie Bly

I had, toward the last, been shut off from all visitors, and so when the lawyer, Peter A. Hendricks, came and told me that friends of mine were willing to take charge of me if I would rather be with them than in the asylum, I was only too glad to give my consent. Nellie Bly

Me Lawyer Too Mine Asylum Visitors Willing Charge Would Give Rather Only Glad Take Had Toward Came Were Been Off Friends Than Them Peter Shut Last Consent

I always had a desire to know asylum life more thoroughly - a desire to be convinced that the most helpless of God's creatures, the insane, were cared for kindly and properly. Nellie Bly

Life God Thoroughly Insane Asylum Kindly Properly More Had Know Most Always Were Convinced Helpless Creatures Cared Desire

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