William Styron Quotes

The pain is unrelenting, and what makes the condition intolerable is the foreknowledge that no remed...

A disruption of the circadian cycle—the metabolic and glandular rhythms that are central to our work...

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live sev...

On Major Depression, quoted by the great William Styron of Sophie's Choice & Darkness Visible:From D...

A good book should leave you....slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading ...

Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from natural experience, the gray drizzle of horror...

E quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle.And so we came forth, and once again beheld the stars.

The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a might...

In De Rerum Natura, Lucretius pointed out a very central truth concerning the examined life. That is...

We would have to settle for the elegant goal of becoming ourselves.

I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the pain ...

The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have mighty ...

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several...

The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it, and it kills ...

At Dachau. We had a wonderful pool for the garrison children. It was even heated. But that was befor...

Then I resolved that I would go back out there and somehow cope with the situation, despite the fact...

It was true that I had traveled great distances for one so young, but my spirit had remained landloc...

What this country needs... what this great land of ours needs is something to happen to it. Somethin...

my brain had begun to endure its familiar siege: panic and dislocation, and a sense that my thought ...

This sound, which like all music--indeed, like all pleasure--I had been numbly unresponsive to for m...

For those who have dwelt in depression's dark wood, and known its inexplicable agony, their return f...

The madness of depression is, generally speaking, the antithesis of violence. It is a storm indeed, ...

it has to be emphasized that if the pain were readily describable most of the countless sufferers fr...

There he must, despite the anguish devouring his brain, present a face approximating the one that is...

Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it becomes known to...

When I was first aware that I had been laid low by the disease, I felt a need, among other things, t...

The night was blustery and raw, with a chill wet wind blowing down the avenues, and when Rose and I ...

A phenomenon that a number of people have noted while in deep depression is the sense of being accom...

The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it, and it kills ...

At any rate, during the few hours when the depressive state itself eased off long enough to permit t...

depression in its major stages possesses no quickly available remedy: failure of alleviation is one ...