William StyronThe writer's duty is to keep on writing. ✨ William Styron (2015). My Generation: Collected Nonfiction, p.417, Random House371Humanity
William StyronReading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.371PoliticsReading
William StyronI thought there's something to be said for honor in this world where there doesn't seem to be any honor left. I thought that maybe happiness wasn't really anything more than the k… ▶352LifeLoveThought
William StyronThe madness of depression is, generally speaking, the antithesis of violence. It is a storm indeed, but a storm of murk. Soon evident are the slowed-down responses, near paralysis… ▶331Reflection
William Styron[However], the sufferer from depression has no option, and therefore finds himself, like a walking casualty of war, thrust into the most intolerable social and family situations. … ▶376Time
William StyronThis was not judgment day - only morning. Morning: excellent and fair. ✨ William Clark Styron (2013). The Collected Novels: Lie Down in Darkness, Set This House on Fire, The… ▶378Reading
William StyronDepression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it becomes known to the self -- to the mediating intellect-- as to verge close to being beyond des… ▶369LifeSadness
William StyronWhat I really mean is that a great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it. ✨ Conversations w… ▶359LifeReading
William StyronA great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading. ✨ William Styron, James L. W. West (1985). Conv… ▶3610LifeReading
William StyronFurther, Dr. Gold said with a straight face, the pill at optimum dosage could have the side effect of impotence. Until that moment, although I'd had some trouble with his personal… ▶274ThoughtTime
William StyronMysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from natural experience, the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain. ✨ William C… ▶241LifeSadness
William StyronFor a person whose sole burning ambition is to write - like myself - college is useless beyond the Sophomore year. ✨ William Styron (2012). Selected Letters of William Styro… ▶221Death
William StyronI get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the pain of getting started each day. Let's face it, writing is hell. ✨ William St… ▶277Sadness
William Styronwe each devise our means of escape from the intolerable. ✨ William Clark Styron (2010). A Tidewater Morning: Three Tales from Youth, p.76, Open Road Media244Life
William Styronmy brain had begun to endure its familiar siege: panic and dislocation, and a sense that my thought processes were being engulfed by a toxic and unnameable tide that obliterated a… ▶211LifeThought
William StyronThe good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a bunch of happy chuc… ▶268Reading
William StyronWhat this country needs... what this great land of ours needs is something to happen to it. Something ferocious and tragic, like what happened to Jericho or the cities of the plai… ▶224HumanitySadness
William StyronDepression...so mysteriously painful and elusive.2610Sadness
William StyronI think it's unfortunate to have critics for friends. ✨ William Styron, James L. W. West (1985). Conversations with William Styron, p.15, Univ. Press of Mississippi183Thought
William StyronA disruption of the circadian cycle—the metabolic and glandular rhythms that are central to our workaday life—seems to be involved in many, if not most, cases of depression; this … ▶2510Life
William StyronThe good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis. ✨ William Styron, James L. W. West (1985). Conversations with William Styron, p.19, Univ. Pres… ▶206Philosophy
William StyronThrough the healing process of time-and through medical intervention or hospitalization in many cases-most people survive depression which may be its only blessing; but to the tra… ▶217HumanityTime
William StyronI think that one of the compelling themes of fiction is this confrontation between good and evil.186Thought
William StyronIn Vineyard Haven, on Martha's Vineyard, mostly I love the soft collision here of harbor and shore, the subtly haunting briny quality that all small towns have when they are situa… ▶143Love
William StyronThe weather of Depression is unmodulated, its light a brownout. ✨ William Styron (1990). Darkness visible: a memoir of madness, Random House Incorporated133Reading
William StyronWe would have to settle for the elegant goal of becoming ourselves. ✨ William Styron (2015). My Generation: Collected Nonfiction, p.519, Random House188Reading
William StyronThe pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it. ✨ William Styron (1990). Darkness visible: a memoir of madness, Random House Incorpora… ▶146Sadness
William StyronIn depression . . . faith in deliverance, in ultimate restoration, is absent. The pain is unrelenting, and what makes the condition intolerable is the foreknowledge that no remedy… ▶1810HopeSadness
William StyronLet's face it, writing is hell. ✨ William Styron, James L. W. West (1985). Conversations with William Styron, p.9, Univ. Press of Mississippi136Humanity
William StyronIt's fine therapy for people who are perpetually scared of nameless threats as I am most of the time — for jittery people. ✨ Conversations with William Styron.139HumanityTime
