Quotes by : William Styron

On Major Depression, quoted by the great William Styron of Sophie's Choice & Darkness Visible:From Darkness....

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

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

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

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

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

The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have mighty dull....

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

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

What this country needs... what this great land of ours needs is something to happen to it. Something....