When I was first aware that I had been laid low by the disease, I felt a need, among other things, to register a strong protest against the word "depression." Depression, most people know, used to be termed "melancholia," a word which appears in English as the year 1303 and crops up more than once in Chaucer, who in his usage seemed to be aware of its pathological nuances. "Melancholia" would still appear to be a far more apt and evocative word for the blacker forms of the disorder, but it was usurped by a noun with a blank tonality and lacking any magisterial presence, used indifferently to describe an economic decline or a rut in the ground, a true wimp of a word for such a major illness. It may be that the scientist generally held responsible for its currency in modern times, a Johns Hopkins Medical School faculty member justly venerated -- the Swiss-born psychiatrist Adolf Meyer -- had a tin ear for the finer rhythms of English and therefore was unaware of the semantic damage he had inflicted for such a dreadful and raging disease. Nonetheless, for over seventy-five years the word has slithered innocuously through the language like a slug, leaving little trace of its intrinsic malevolence and preventing, by its insipidity, a general awareness of the horrible intensity of the disease when out of control.
William Styron
Related (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite STEPHEN CHBOSKY You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think eve... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if... STEPHEN CHBOSKY History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl... TAMMARA WEBBER The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different. JOHNNIE DENT JR. Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed. A.A. MILNE We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet. Even longer,' Pooh answered.” ... A.A. MILNE You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ... C. JOYBELL C. If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever. FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements. LAURA DOCKRILL I was suddenly very aware of the fact it was me standing up in that tunnel with the wind over my fac... STEPHEN CHBOSKY The only perspective is to really be there. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I didn't feel like reading that night, so I went downstairs and watched a half-hour long commercial ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Why is England manufacturing bigger and better airplanes and bombs and at the same time churning out... ANNE FRANK What will make you a star is in you SOTONYE ANGA Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty. BRIAN JACQUES You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently. Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m... SARAH J. MAAS I just want you to know that you’re very special… and the only reason I’m telling you is that ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I thought I would write a love letter. But then, I wrote a book." - Suzy Davies, on "Johari's Window SUZY DAVIES The Dream of a Queer Fellow I write the words again and they appear doubly pregnant with meaning. It... JOHN MIDDLETON MURRY If you have read this far in the chronicle of the Baudelaire orphans - and I certainly hope you have... LEMONY SNICKET Like a deep sad note played beneath the ocean waving through the orb the memories of ... PAWAN MISHRA Love is a growing, or full constant light, And his first minute, after noon, is night. JOHN DONNE Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. CHLOE THURLOW Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA He had what he called just a small ration of tools: A painted book. A handful of pencils.<... MARKUS ZUSAK the room of the spirit is the mind and the seat of the spirit is the heart. What we give room to muc... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH If Stephen King was a killer, he will be the best killer ever existed, check out his novels, check o... DEYTH BANGER Oh happy day! A day to make a hay! And when it is mid-day, think about the day! And when you think a... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you. SARAH J. MAAS He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain... SARAH J. MAAS Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You do what you love, what you need SARAH J. MAAS I turned. Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere... SARAH J. MAAS We die a day at a time BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Put my head under my pillow, and let the quiet put things where they are supposed to be. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Farming is the oldest profession on earth SOTONYE ANGA He said it was the kind of book you made your own. STEPHEN CHBOSKY No hay nada como respirar hondo después de reírte tanto. Nada en el mundo como el dolor de estóma... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Sam dropped me off. When she was too far away to see me, I started to cry again. Because she was my ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY The profound ability to use aural and written language has enabled our species to collectively explo... KATHERINE VUCICEVIC Anyways, that very same night there was a fight in the casino on B Deck. Some of the passengers got ... CHRISTINA ENGELA I don't know if I have a favorite color. KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl. KATE MIDDLETON In a world in which the common rule which binds and regulates what the general masses feel is underm... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH A man drank and became drunk, next he said, now i am delivered from my enemies and then walked into ... SOTONYE ANGA The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE I frowned at the eye in my palm. "What, literally shout at the tattoo?" "You could try rubbing ... SARAH J. MAAS The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. CRAIG GROESCHEL His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING For starters, that’s a rather simple principle of Time Travel right there – and according to the... CHRISTINA ENGELA I wish I was home", She said miserably. She tried so hard to be brave, to be fierce as a... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The shame and the downfall of a modern materialistic society is her inability to treasure, care for,... C. JOYBELL C. Look to your heart and soul first, rather than looking to your head first, when choosing. Rather tha... JEFFREY R. ANDERSON He brings the greatest conflict into the history of mankind. He will come soon to our world just lik... TOBA BETA She would tuck Sam into her heart, a bright light for her to take out whenever things were darkest. SARAH J. MAAS That boy had wanted to be Ser Arthur Dayne, but someplace along the way he had become the Smiling Kn... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The mark of a real man, is a man who can allow himself to fall deeply in love with a woman. But the ... C. JOYBELL C. Although it's great to appear to a feast, home is always sweet, though it may be lonely and cold lik... BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Don't settle for a normal life. Not when you can enjoy the wonderful weirdness of being who God crea... CRAIG GROESCHEL She made a fence of phrases, which seemed a treachery to herself. ELIZABETH TAYLOR You are the blood of the dragon. You can make a hat. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Though we are terrorized by death, it's not different from birth, it just happens BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind. C LIONG A person of value have skill, a vision & a deep desire to achieve what they dream for. Happiness com... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA A man of guilt acknowledges and changes himself immediately on being hinted slightly about his fault... ANUJ SOMANY The school year progressed slowly. I felt as if I had been in the sixth grade for years, yet it was ... LUCY GREALY The value of a consultant;An outsider can see what an insider cannot see or has decided to ignore. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A family is like a card game, on one hand, you can get a really bad hand and on the other, your hand... GARY F EVANS... The worth of a person’s quote is in his or her heart where it takes the birth and the value of the... ANUJ SOMANY Walking the rugged trail of the unknown destiny can be filled with walls crashing and cracks on the ... GARY F EVANS... It makes you wonder why the human race can be so selfish and self-centered sometimes, when on cold w... GARY F EVANS...
More William Styron
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 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 The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it, and it kills ... 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