Quotes by : William Styron

The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it, and it kills in....

This sound, which like all music--indeed, like all pleasure--I had been numbly unresponsive to for months,....

We would have to settle for the elegant goal of becoming ourselves.

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

Then I resolved that I would go back out there and somehow cope with the situation, despite the fact....

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

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

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

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

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