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.
Deeper than our instinct to live is our longing to be alive.
Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.... The subjection of individuals will increase amongst democratic nations, not only in the same proportion as their equality, but in the same proportion as their ignorance.
Well, the news is mostly about things that go wrong, right? It's about sensationalist incidents that happened today, instead of things that happen every day. So if you watch and follow a lot of the news, at the end of the day, you know exactly how the world is not working.
The celebrity syndrome. When people forget who they are and start to believe what other people say about them.
Even what people take to be their most personal desires are usually programmed by the imagined order.
There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music.
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