If I ever saw an amputee getting hanged, I'd probably just…

I miss you like a double amputee misses masterbation.

— Anonymous

I really love to sleep. I think that's an amputee thing because I'm exhausted throughout the day.

— Jessica Long

The night before my amputation, my former basketball coach brought me a magazine with an article on an amputee who ran in the New…

— Terry Fox

“I would, if one-armned and jonesing, doubtless have found a way to cook up a hearty spoon of Mexican tar and slam it with…

— Jerry Stahl

There are more challenges as an amputee than I had when I was racing with both my legs beforehand but it's something I enjoy…

— Billy Monger

I'm not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me. You can't possibly speak for a diverse group of people. I…

— Aimee Mullins

I've had journalists asking me, 'What do we call you - is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?' I said, 'Well hopefully you…

— Aimee Mullins

“Oedipa sat on the earth, ass getting cold, wondering whether, as Driblette had suggested that night from the shower, some version of herself hadn’t…

— Thomas Pynchon

Now I know why they call them pay stubs. My take home pay has been amputated. Thanks Obama.

— Rudy Espinoza

The injured runner is like a recent amputee victim, continually forgetting that the limb isn't there, crestfallen at each realization. What we need more…

— Lauren Fleshman

“Pop's leg was across the room when I came downstairs.”

— Kathryn Miller Haines

“She felt like an amputee, reaching out reflexively with an arm she no longer had.”

— Frances Hardinge

With this blistering salvo of poetic gutshots Lawson has proven himself Bizarro’s true bard, its mad laureate. Switching from dark whimsy to retina-blast shock…

— Jeremy Robert Johnson

It's an objective fact that I am a double amputee, but it's very subjective opinion as to whether that makes me disabled.

— Aimee Mullins

There's a big difference between me being an amputee from when I was 13 months old to someone who's lost their leg in an…

— Alex Brooker