It was true that I had traveled great distances for one so young, but my spirit had remained landlocked, unacquainted with love and all but a stranger to death…I had absented myself in my smug and air...
For those who have dwelt in depression's dark wood, and known its inexplicable agony, their return from the abyss is not unlike the ascent of the poet, trudging upward and upward out of hell's black d...
A good book should leave you....slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.
In my career as a writer I have always been attracted to morbid themes—suicide, rape, murder, military life, marriage, slavery.
A phenomenon that a number of people have noted while in deep depression is the sense of being accompanied by a second self — a wraithlike observer who, not sharing the dementia of his double, is able...
This was not judgment day - only morning. Morning: excellent and fair.
I mean, I don't know much about the Civil War, but whenever I think of that time—I mean, ever since I've had these fantasies about those generals, those gorgeous young Southern generals with their ta...
Greed is not a racial but a human prediliction and
Therefore, they is only one thing to do … Here I stopped speaking altogether for a while, allowing these last words to enter their consciousness. Minutes passed and they said nothing, then Henry’s voi...
There is only one way out—up the chimney.’ He
Counted my money and reckoned my total worth at something less than fifty dollars. Although, as I said, I was without real fear in my plight, I could not help feeling a trifle insecure, especially
One of the century’s most famous intellectual pronouncements comes at the beginning of The Myth of Sisyphus: There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether...
It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul.
Is it best to know about a child's death, even one so horrible, or to know that the child lives but that you will never, never see him again?
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.
Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.
—retaining the other half for yourself in savings for the future. Thereupon, at Mr. Pemberton’s good report of your labor—and again I have no doubt that this might be anything but exemplary—I shall dr...
Servomechanism in which a moral vacuum had been so successfully sucked clean of every molecule of real qualm or scruple that his own descriptions of the unutterable crimes he perpetrated daily seem of...
In modern times most of the mischief ascribed to the military has been wrought with the advice and consent of civil authority. As
Almost unique in Eastern Europe in possessing its own constitution, called even now the Magdeburg rights and based upon medieval laws formulated in the city of Magdeburg? Was