Logo
Quote by William Styron
In depression...faith in deliverance, in ultimate restoration, is

In depression…faith in deliverance, in ultimate restoration, is absent. The pain is unrelenting, and what makes the condition intolerable is the foreknowledge that no rememdy will come, not in a day, an hour, a month, or a minute. It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul. – William Styron

Other quotes by William Styron

The madness of depression is the antithesis of violence. It is a storm indeed, but a storm of murk. Soon evident are the slowed-down responses, near paralysis, psychic energy throttled back close to zero. Ultimately, the body is affected and feels sapped, drained. – William Styron

Category:
Depression
Author
William Styron
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Depression
category

He did not mean to depress us, rather to free us from expectations which inspire bitterness. It is consoling, when love has let us down, to hear that happiness was never part of the plan. – Alain de Botton

Category:
Depression

The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it. – Cesare Pavese

Category:
Depression

Depression is anger without enthusiasm – Anon.

Category:
Depression

I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top. – John Keats

Category:
Depression

Random Quotes

Ive been told the weirdest things: Yeah, I love taking a bath to your music! or I gave birth to my daughter while listening to your music. – Norah Jones

Category:
Music

What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after. – Ernest Hemingway

Category:
good

When its said and done, the one thing I want to leave on this earth is hope. I have felt hopelessness, and its a terrible feeling. Hopelessness will destroy you. I want to bring hope to other people. – Paula Deen

Category:
Hope

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles. – Henry Ward Beecher

Category:
Marriage