William Styron Quotes about Suffering

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The pain is unrelenting; one does not abandon, even briefly, one's bed of nails, but is attached to it wherever one goes.

The pain is unrelenting; one does not abandon, even briefly, one's bed of nails, but is attached to it wherever one goes.

William Styron

Pain, Suffering, Bed

Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from natural experience, the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain.

William Styron

Depression, Pain, Suffering

William Clark Styron (2010). “Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness”, p.26, Open Road Media

Which is worse, past or future? Neither. I will fold up my mind like a leaf and drift on this stream over the brink.

William Styron

Past, Mind, Suffering

William Styron (1957). “Lie Down in Darkness: A Novel”

I thought there's something to be said for honor in this world where there doesn't seem to be any honor left. I thought that maybe happiness wasn't really anything more than the knowledge of a life well spent, in spite of whatever immediate discomfort you had to undergo, and that if a life well spent meant compromises and conciliations and reconciliations, and suffering at the hands of the person you love, well then better that than live without honor.

William Styron

Hands, Honor, Suffering

William Styron Quotes about Suffering

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