"Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it becomes known to the self -- to the mediating intellect-- as to verge close to being beyond description. It thus remains nearly incomprehensible to those who have not experienced it in its extreme mode."

--

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

William Styron

#Self Quotes #Way Quotes #Painful Quotes

“Much of the left-liberal elite despise traditional religious beliefs ... in general, they are profoundly uncomfortable with religious institutions and the traditional values they embody.”

Source : William John Bennett (1994). “The De-valuing of America: The Fight for Our Culture and Our Children”, p.213, Simon and Schuster
“Would I rather be right, or would I rather be kind?”
“Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.”
“The more successful you are, the more you need to learn and grow. Your commitment to learning has to be continuous and unrelenting.”

Source : Robert Anthony (2004). “Beyond Positive Thinking: A No-Nonsense Formula for Getting the Results You Want”, p.167, Morgan James Publishing
“One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.”
“People have always told tales. Long before humanity learned to write and gradually became literate, everybody told tales to everybody else and everybody listened to everybody else's tales. Before long it became clear that some of the still illiterate storytellers told more and better tales than others, that is, they could make more people believe their lies.”
“As for politics, Iâ€™m an anarchist. I hate governments and rules and fetters. Canâ€™t stand caged animals. People must be free.”
“If you can't feel secure - and teach your children to feel secure - about 1-in-610,000 nightmare scenarios - the problem isn't the world. It's you.”

Source : "The 'Zero-Probability Fallacy' Fallacy". econlog.econlib.org. January 27, 2010.

You may also like:

Alan J. Pakula
Film director
John Steinbeck
Author
John Updike
Novelist
Joseph Heller
Novelist
Kay Redfield Jamison
Psychologist
Kingsley Amis
Novelist
Nat Turner
Norman Mailer
Novelist
William Faulkner
Writer