William Styron quote: "The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it, and it kills in many instances because its anguish can no longer be borne."

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

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

I'm simply the happiest, the placidest, when I'm writing, and so I suppose that that, for me, is the...
WILLIAM STYRON

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

Every writer since the beginning of time, just like other people, has been afflicted by what a frien...
WILLIAM STYRON

The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis.
WILLIAM STYRON

A great book should leave you with many experiences and slightly exhausted at the end. You should li...
WILLIAM STYRON

A great book of literature should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end...
WILLIAM STYRON

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

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

The madness of depression is the antithesis of violence. It is a storm indeed, but a storm of murk. ...
WILLIAM STYRON

In depression...faith in deliverance, in ultimate restoration, is absent. The pain is unrelenting, a...
WILLIAM STYRON

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

The stigma of self-inflicted death is for some people a hateful blot that demands erasure at all cos...
WILLIAM STYRON

And so we came forth, and once again beheld the stars.
WILLIAM STYRON

Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.
WILLIAM STYRON

Someday I will understand Auschwitz. This was a brave statement but innocently absurd. No one...
WILLIAM STYRON

Writing is a fine therapy for people who are perpetually scared of nameless threats . . . for jitter...
WILLIAM STYRON

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

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

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

Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has n...
WILLIAM STYRON

It did not occur to me that there would be many difficulties to impede my ambition. . . .
WILLIAM STYRON

The writer's duty is to keep on writing
WILLIAM STYRON

I could compose on white sheets, in longhand, but it would be an added handicap. . . .
WILLIAM STYRON

Every writer since the beginning of time, just like other people, has been afflicted by what [a] fri...
WILLIAM STYRON

In America there seems to be an idea that writing is one big cat-and-dog fight between the various p...
WILLIAM STYRON

[What I encountered in producing] Race to the Moon ... It was a moment that was depthless and inexpr...
WILLIAM STYRON

Basically it is a very politically incorrect book written by a white man trying to seize his own int...
WILLIAM STYRON

In depression . . . faith in deliverance, in ultimate restoration, is absent. The pain is unrelentin...
WILLIAM STYRON

We're all in this game together.
WILLIAM STYRON

The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis.
WILLIAM STYRON

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

The pain is unrelenting; one does not abandon, even briefly, one's bed of nails, but is attached to ...
WILLIAM STYRON

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

depression, which can be as serious a medical affair as diabetes or cancer.
WILLIAM STYRON

Loss in all of its manifestations is the touchstone of depression—in the progress of the disease a...
WILLIAM STYRON

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

I felt loss at every hand. The
loss of self-esteem is a celebrated symptom, and my own sense o...
WILLIAM STYRON

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

In depression this faith in deliverance, in ultimate restoration, is absent. The pain is unrelenting...
WILLIAM STYRON

Most people in the grip of depression at its ghastliest are, for whatever reason, in a state of unre...
WILLIAM STYRON

It is a positive and active anguish, a sort of psychical neuralgia wholly unknown to normal life.
WILLIAM STYRON

I had now reached that phase of the disorder where all sense of hope had vanished, along with the id...
WILLIAM STYRON

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

What I had begun to discover is that, mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from normal e...
WILLIAM STYRON

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is o...
WILLIAM STYRON

date of the award approached, I would not have accepted at all.
Depression is a disorder of mo...
WILLIAM STYRON

One of the century’s most famous intellectual pronouncements comes at the beginning of The Myth of...
WILLIAM STYRON

Further, Dr. Gold said with a straight face, the pill at optimum dosage could have the side effect o...
WILLIAM STYRON

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul.
WILLIAM STYRON

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

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

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

In depression this faith in deliverance, in ultimate restoration, is absent. The pain is unrelenting...
WILLIAM STYRON

We each devise our means of escape from the intolerable.
WILLIAM STYRON

Untold love is like falling stars , always fall but never reach
WILLIAM

The more you stab , the more i step
WILLIAM

Time moves in one direction, memory in another.
WILLIAM GIBSON

We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want...
PRINCE WILLIAM

One challenge to the arts in America is the need to make the arts, especially the classic masterpiec...
WILLIAM SAFIRE

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common ha...
WILLIAM JAMES

Sex is a natural function. You can't make it happen, but you can teach people to let it happen.
WILLIAM MASTERS

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is Manifest Destiny.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

I don't remember being taught to read, and by the time I was seven years old, I had read a very ...
WILLIAM MORRIS

I can't enter into politico-social subjects with any interest, for on the whole, I see that thin...
WILLIAM MORRIS

It is right and necessary that all should have work to do which shall be worth doing and be of itsel...
WILLIAM MORRIS

Happy as we are, times may alter; we may be bitten with some impulse towards change, and many things...
WILLIAM MORRIS

I am going, if I can, to be an architect, and I am too old already, and there is no time to lose.
WILLIAM MORRIS

We are living in a epoch where there is combat between commercialism, or the system of reckless wast...
WILLIAM MORRIS

To do nothing but grumble and not to act - that is throwing away one's life.
WILLIAM MORRIS

Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is ha...
WILLIAM MORRIS

It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make e...
WILLIAM MORRIS

If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it.
WILLIAM MORRIS

I want a real revolution, a real change in society: society, a great organic mass of well-regulated ...
WILLIAM MORRIS

The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?
WILLIAM MORRIS

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, ...
WILLIAM MORRIS

The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping t...
WILLIAM MORRIS

Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.
WILLIAM MORRIS

No man is good enough to be another's master.
WILLIAM MORRIS

I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.
WILLIAM MORRIS

Give me love and work - these two only.
WILLIAM MORRIS

'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

There is no darkness but ignorance.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

To do a great right do a little wrong.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Listen to many, speak to a few.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

This above all; to thine own self be true.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do n...
WILLIAM BLAKE

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Time and the hour run through the roughest day.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

I say there is no darkness but ignorance.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Though she be but little, she is fierce.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

What's done can't be undone.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

All love is lost but upon God alone.
WILLIAM DUNBAR

The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.
WILLIAM BARCLAY

God himself took this human flesh upon him.
WILLIAM BARCLAY

But the best definition of it is to say that heaven is that state where we will always be with Jesus...
WILLIAM BARCLAY

If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attai...
WILLIAM BARCLAY

The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity.
WILLIAM BARCLAY

The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing H...
WILLIAM BARCLAY

Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love C...
WILLIAM BARCLAY

For the Christian, heaven is where Jesus is. We do not need to speculate on what heaven will be like...
WILLIAM BARCLAY

When we love anyone with our whole hearts, life begins when we are with that person; it is only in t...
WILLIAM BARCLAY

In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all ...
WILLIAM BARCLAY

A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing.
WILLIAM BARCLAY

We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life ...
WILLIAM BARCLAY

When we believe that God is Father, we also believe that such a father's hand will never cause h...
WILLIAM BARCLAY

They say miracles are past.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

I'm William Wallace, and the rest of you will be spared. Go back to England and tell them... Sco...
WILLIAM WALLACE

It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingl...
WILLIAM GIBSON

What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?
WILLIAM OSLER

Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel wort...
WILLIAM PENN

The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation.
WILLIAM GODWIN

And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
WILLIAM JAMES

Man produces evil as a bee produces honey.
WILLIAM GOLDING

No man knows the value of innocence and integrity but he who has lost them.
WILLIAM GODWIN

Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
WILLIAM COWPER

I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.
WILLIAM GODWIN

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
WILLIAM JAMES

Tenderness is the name for a lover's most exquisite sensation; protection is implied in his most...
WILLIAM GODWIN

If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? A...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

We shall not be happy unless we live like good animals, unless we enjoy the exercise of the ordinary...
WILLIAM MORRIS

The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
WILLIAM PENN

In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before t...
WILLIAM PENN

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we ...
WILLIAM PENN

Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.
WILLIAM WESTMORELAND

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

No, I'm no enemy to learning; it hurts not me.
WILLIAM CONGREVE

To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is ...
WILLIAM CONGREVE

'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pe...
WILLIAM CONGREVE

If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me...
WILLIAM CONGREVE

They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient cus...
WILLIAM CONGREVE

You are a woman: you must never speak what you think; your words must contradict your thoughts, but ...
WILLIAM CONGREVE

Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my facu...
WILLIAM CONGREVE

She likes herself, yet others hates, For that which in herself she prizes; And while she laughs at t...
WILLIAM CONGREVE

Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond.
WILLIAM CONGREVE

I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections.
WILLIAM CONGREVE

Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
WILLIAM CONGREVE

Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, ...
WILLIAM CONGREVE

There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.
WILLIAM CONGREVE

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.
WILLIAM CONGREVE

He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own vi...
WILLIAM CONGREVE

If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable.
WILLIAM CONGREVE

Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.
WILLIAM CONGREVE

A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the disc...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little ...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long ...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

Faith is a passionate intuition.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its ro...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

To begin, begin.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from th...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

There are good waves not that far from Manhattan - on Long Island, in north Jersey. It's true th...
WILLIAM FINNEGAN

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic current...
WILLIAM JAMES

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Now is the winter of our discontent.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

What are gold and jewels and precious utensils? Mere dross and dirt. The human face and the human he...
WILLIAM GODWIN

Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.
WILLIAM BLAKE

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perce...
WILLIAM JAMES

I like stirring things up. I'm on the side of the kids more than I am on the adults. And occasio...
WILLIAM JOYCE

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
WILLIAM GOLDING

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
WILLIAM HAZLITT

The course of true love never did run smooth.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Every seaman is not only a navigator, but a merchant and also a soldier.
WILLIAM PETTY

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
WILLIAM JAMES

The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it, and it kills in many instances because its anguish can no longer be borne.

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William Styron

The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it, and it kills in many instances because its anguish can no longer be borne.

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