Depression is melancholy minus its charms — the animation, the fits. – Susan Sontag
Volume depends precisely on the writers having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone. – Susan Sontag

Depression is melancholy minus its charms — the animation, the fits. – Susan Sontag
Volume depends precisely on the writers having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone. – Susan Sontag
For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied. – Susan Sontag
The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities. – Susan Sontag
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