Barren primarily refers to a state of Barrenness (infertility)
Barren as a place name can refer to:
- Barren County, Kentucky
- Barren Island (Andaman Islands)
- Barren Island, Brooklyn
- Barren River Lake
Barren can also refer to:
- Barren County (album)
- Barren County Progress
- Barren Realms Elite
- Barren Strawberry (disambiguation), various meanings
- Cape Barren Goose
- barren vegetation
Famous quotes containing the word barren:
“What of the heart without her? Nay, poor heart,
Of thee what word remains ere speech be still?
A wayfarer by barren ways and chill,
Steep ways and weary, without her thou art,
Where the long cloud, the long wood’s counterpart,
Sheds doubled darkness up the labouring hill.”
—Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882)
“Time turns the old days to derision,
Our loves into corpses or wives;
And marriage and death and division
Make barren our lives.”
—A.C. (Algernon Charles)
“A society in which everyone works is not necessarily a free society and may indeed be a slave society; on the other hand, a society in which there is widespread economic insecurity can turn freedom into a barren and vapid right for the millions of people.”
—Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962)