William Styron Quote

The pain of severe 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.

One of the things I cannnot grasp, though I have often written about them, trying to get them into some kind of bearable perspective, Steiner writes, is the time relation. Steiner has just quoted desc...

Then I resolved that I would go back out there and somehow cope with the situation, despite the fact that I lacked a strategy and was frightened to the pit of my being.

In De Rerum Natura, Lucretius pointed out a very central truth concerning the examined life. That is, that the man of science who concerns himself solely with science, who cannot enjoy and be enriched...