In the canon
Darkness Visible
- Form
- Form Memoir
- Year
- Year 1990
- Pages
- Pages 84
Depression, Styron decided, is a wimp of a word, a bland little noun for a storm that enters the brain and takes everything. He had gone to Paris to accept a prize and found he could not eat, could not sleep, could not remember why any of it had ever mattered, and within months he was counting the hours until dark and quietly planning his own death.
It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul.
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