“The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it, and it kills in many instances because… — William Styron Copy Share Image
Which is worse, past or future? Neither. I will fold up my mind like a leaf and drift on this stream over… — William Styron Copy Share Image
Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from natural experience, the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the… — William Styron Copy Share Image
The pain is unrelenting; one does not abandon, even briefly, one's bed of nails, but is attached to it wherever one goes. — William Styron Copy Share Image
“it has to be emphasized that if the pain were readily describable most of the countless sufferers from this ancient affliction would… — William Styron Copy Share Image
I thought there's something to be said for honor in this world where there doesn't seem to be any honor left. I… — William Styron Copy Share Image
“such incomprehension has usually been due not to a failure of sympathy but to the basic inability of healthy people to imagine… — William Styron Copy Share Image
“It is a positive and active anguish, a sort of psychical neuralgia wholly unknown to normal life.” — William Styron Copy Share Image
In depression . . . faith in deliverance, in ultimate restoration, is absent. The pain is unrelenting, and what makes the condition… — William Styron Copy Share Image
“Perhaps, he thought, if I only think of this second, this moment, the train won't come at all. Think of the water, think of… — William Styron Copy Share Image
“Until that moment, although I’d had some trouble with his personality, I had not thought him totally lacking in perspicacity; now I was not… — William Styron Copy Share Image
Every writer since the beginning of time, just like other people, has been afflicted by what [a] friend of mine calls "the fleas of… — William Styron Copy Share Image
“Are there, as science fiction and Gnostic speculation imply, different species of time in the same world, 'good time' and enveloping folds of inhuman… — William Styron Copy Share Image
I felt the exultancy of a man just released from slavery and ready to set the universe on fire. — William Styron Copy Share Image
“date of the award approached, I would not have accepted at all. Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in… — William Styron Copy Share Image
“I actually shivered at the insincerity that gripped me as I spoke these words: their falseness was shameful. I was sure my coolness would… — William Styron Copy Share Image
It's fine therapy for people who are perpetually scared of nameless threats as I am most of the time — for jittery people. — William Styron Copy Share Image
“He was made uneasy by unbraked hilarity and by extremes of sorrow alike, especially the latter; he preferred life to sail along pleasantly and… — William Styron Copy Share Image
“One of the century’s most famous intellectual pronouncements comes at the beginning of The Myth of Sisyphus: “There is but one truly serious philosophical… — William Styron Copy Share Image
“The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have mighty dull literature if all the writers… — William Styron Copy Share Image
