Depression Quote by William Styron

“What I had begun to discover is that, mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from normal experience, the grey drizzle of horror…

— William Styron

“the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain. But it is not an immediately identifiable pain, like…

— William Styron

Depression is pain in its purest form.

— J.A. Redmerski

“Much of depression's pain arises out of the recognition that what might make one feel better--human connection-- seems impossible in the midst of a…

— David A. Karp

“The horror of profound depression, and the hopelessness that usually accompanies it, are hard to imagine for those who have not experienced them. Because…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

The depressed person was in terrible and unceasing pain, and the impossibility of sharing or articulating this pain was itself a component of the…

— David Foster Wallace

“The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it, and it kills in many instances because its anguish…

— William Styron

I think of depression as the mechanism that pushes down the pain of that loss. It tries to distance us from the loss but…

— Tara Brach

Depression opens the door to beauty of some kind.

— James Hillman

The true opposite of depression is not gaiety or absence of pain, but vitality: the freedom to experience spontaneous feelings.

— Alice Miller

Perhaps depression is a perfectly natural reaction to the human condition.

— Dov Davidoff

In depression, your capacity to feel just flattens and disappears and what you feel is pain and a kind of pain that you can't…

— Kay Redfield Jamison