A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it. - William Styron

I don’t see any point in trying to equate one evil with another, or to assign some stupid scale of values. They’re both awful! Would

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.

It is a positive and active anguish, a sort of psychical neuralgia wholly unknown to normal life.