Barren Quote by Anonymous

“Whether he was acting ill or well he did not know, and far from laying down the law about it, he now avoided talking…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Many were incarcerated with the aberrant prosaic possibilities of ataraxia. Only the mentally sensitive few were cognizant of the nuisance to serenity and an…

— O.Z. Napaeae

“The human interpretation of a disability is a primitive departmentalized view of ignorance.”

— Alastair Agutter

His progress through life was hampered by his tremendous sense of his own ignorance, a disability which affects all too few.

— Terry Pratchett

The true disability is to be unable to think properly.

— Rabeya

“The affliction was too insipid, too much a product of our surrendering mindful regard and diligence. The meanings of words lost their precision –…

— Steven Erikson

Strong mental agitation and disturbance was no novelty to him, even before his late sufferings. It never is, to obstinate and sullen natures; for…

— Charles Dickens

He thought and suffered a good deal but he lacked the resolution to dare--the first requisite of a practitioner.

— Lawrence Durrell

“The great source of both the misery and disorders of human life, seems to arise from over-rating the difference between one permanent situation and…

— Adam Smith

“Reasoning led him into doubt and kept him from seeing what he should and should not do. Yet when he did not think, but…

— Leo Tolstoy

I felt permanently exiled from 'normality.' Whether imposed by self or society, this outsider status - and not the disability itself - constitutes the…

— Nancy Mairs

“There are two kinds of 'disabled' persons: Those who dwell on what they have lost and those who concentrate on what they have left.”

— Thomas Stephen Szasz