7 quotes
It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul.
Darkness Visible (1990)
One does not abandon, even briefly, one's bed of nails, but is attached to it wherever one goes.
Darkness Visible (1990)
In depression this faith in deliverance, in ultimate restoration, is absent.
Darkness Visible (1990)
When I was a young writer there had been a stage where Camus, almost more than any other contemporary literary figure, radically set the tone for my own view of life and history.
Darkness Visible (1990)
In Paris on a chilling evening late in October of 1985 I first became fully aware that the struggle with the disorder in my mind — a struggle which had engaged me for several months — might have a fatal outcome.
Darkness Visible (1990)
Camus was a great cleanser of my intellect, ridding me of countless sluggish ideas, and through some of the most unsettling pessimism I had ever encountered causing me to be aroused anew by life’s enigmatic promise.
Darkness Visible (1990)
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, although the gloom, “the blues” which people go through occasionally and associate with the general hassle of everyday existence are of such prevalence that they do give many individuals a hint of the illness in its catastrophic form.
Darkness Visible (1990)