"The pain of depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it, and it kills in many instances because its anguish can no longer be borne. The prevention of many suicides will continue to be hindered until there is a general awareness of the nature of this pain."

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Source : William Styron (1990). “Darkness visible: a memoir of madness”, Random House Incorporated

William Styron

#Suicide Quotes #Pain Quotes #Prevention Quotes

“No university on Earth gives master's degrees of living, of happiness. How strange! We seem to be missing the essential, the all-encompassing knowledge for which universities were originally created!”
“Many a man who goes to Las Vegas to get away from it all soon finds that Las Vegas gets it all away from him.”
“A year of ending and beginning, a year of loss and finding... and all of you were with me through the storm. I drink your health, your wealth, your fortune for long years to come, and I hope for many more days in which we can gather like this.”
“There's never any graffiti in the hotel. Although in the Gents a couple of weeks ago I did see someone had drawn a lady's part. Quite detailed. The guy obviously had talent.”
“I've made hundreds of legendary records that people talk about that didn't sell.”
“They talk about class warfare -- the fact of the matter is there has been class warfare for the last thirty years. It's a handful of billionaires taking on the entire middle-class and working-class of this country. And the result is you now have in America the most unequal distribution of wealth and income of any major country on Earth and the worst inequality in America since 1928. How could anybody defend the top 400 richest people in this country owning more wealth than the bottom half of America, 150 million people?”
“Youâ€™re never ready for the truth. No matter how much you think you know, it always takes you by surprise.”
“The crocodile must want to be a crocodile for reasons of the crocodile”

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