This was not judgment day - only morning. Morning: excellent and fair.
Interpretation
This quote suggests that each new day brings opportunities and hope rather than finality or despair.
William Styron's quote reflects on the notion that every day, especially mornings, represents a fresh start and a chance to embrace life with optimism. It implies that rather than viewing our circumstances as the end of something or a 'judgment day', we should recognize the beauty and potential that each new day holds.
In practice
Use this quote to inspire a group at a morning meeting about the potential of the day ahead.
The madness of depression is, generally speaking, the antithesis of violence. It is a storm indeed, but a storm of murk. Soon evident are the slowed-down responses, near paralysis, psychic energy throttled back close to zero. Ultimately, the body is affected and feels sapped, drained.
my brain had begun to endure its familiar siege: panic and dislocation, and a sense that my thought processes were being engulfed by a toxic and unnameable tide that obliterated any enjoyable response to the living world.
The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it.
In depression . . . faith in deliverance, in ultimate restoration, is absent. The pain is unrelenting, and what makes the condition intolerable is the foreknowledge that no remedy will come - - not in a day, an hour, a month, or a minute . . . It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul.
Writing is a fine therapy for people who are perpetually scared of nameless threats... for jittery people.
For a person whose sole burning ambition is to write - like myself - college is useless beyond the Sophomore year.
We judge ourselves by our intentions. And others by their actions.
True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and they infiltrate and alter consciousness in ways that writers used to aspire to.
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
I got to thinking about the Book of Revelation that was written by a Jewish prophet who was also a follower of Jesus who hated the Roman Empire. I realized that the Book of Revelation could be a way to reflect on the issue of religion's relationship to politics.
My choice is what I choose to do and if I'm causing no harm it shouldn't bother you. Your choice is who you choose to be and if you're causin' no harm, then your alright with me.
Crime generally punishes itself.
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