Century Quote by Barbara Tuchman

“He had been educated in no habits of application and concentration. The system which had addressed him in exactly the same manner as it…

— Charles Dickens

Once a restless or frayed mood has turned to anger, or violence, or psychosis, Richard, like most, finds it very difficult to see it…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

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

There are circumstances of peculiar difficulty and danger, where a mediocrity of talent is the most fatal quantum that a man can possibly possess.…

— Charles Caleb Colton

“he was the most gifted English scientist of his age, but also the strangest. He suffered, in the words of one of his few…

— Bill Bryson

“Although he had always been a gentleman till then, he had 'caught his century', a disease impossible to analyze but by this simple phrase.”

— Rachilde

The historical Woodrow Wilson suffered from numerous complaints which we might today label as psychosomatic. Yet, Wilson did have a stroke as a relatively…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“After a great many questions I eventually ascertained that he is suffering from some kind of disorder of the mind. Is there anything more…

— Diane Setterfield

“Now it occurred to him the changes of mental state that might be important were just such minor things as this abnormal irritability. Not…

— Don Berry

“Richard found himself imagining the earl sixty, eighty, five hundred years ago: a mighty warrior, a cunning strategist, a great lover of women, a…

— Neil Gaiman

“Richard felt his spirits begin to recover and he raised his hand to the crowds, though it made his back ache. It was worse…

— Conn Iggulden

To put it in a nutshell, he was afflicted with a love of literature. It was the fatal nature of this disease to substitute…

— Virginia Woolf