Andrew Solomon Quotes

You don't think in depression that you've put on a gray veil and are seeing the world through the ha...

There is no such thing as reproduction, only acts of production.

Since I am writing a book about depression, I am often asked in social situations to describe my own...

People with family histories of alcoholism tend to have lower levels of endorphins- the endogenous m...

There is so much pain in the world, and most of these people keep theirs secret, rolling through ago...

The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality and my life, as I write this, is vital eve...

There is a moment, if you trip or slip, before your hand shoots out to break your fall, when you fee...

Life itself seemed so alarmingly exigent, to require so much of the self. It was too difficult to re...

If real experience has triggered your descent into depression, you have a human yen to understand it...

The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality and my life, as I write this, is vital eve...

Antonin Artaud wrote on one of his drawings, "Never real and always true," and that is how depressio...

It is important not to suppress your feelings altogether when you are depressed. It is equally impor...

While people argue with one another about the specifics of Freud's work and blame him for the prejud...

Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at wh...

You are constantly told in depression that your judgment is compromised, but a part of depression is...

I did not want to sit on the roof, though I was also aware that if I didn’t allow myself the relief ...

I chose fat and functional over slender and miserable.

The passion for such children contains no ego motive of anticipated reciprocity; one is choosing aga...

The Internet," [Judy] Singer said, "is a prosthetic device for people who can't socialize without it...

Some people are trapped by the belief that love comes in finite quantities, and that our kind of lov...

Those who believe their suffering has been valuable love more readily than those who see no meaning ...

I met people on college campuses who were defining themselves as genderqueer to express revolutionar...

To look deep into your child's eyes and see in him both yourself and something utterly strange, and ...

John [the father] kept saying, "You have a penis. That means you’re a boy." One day, Shannon noticed...

It is not true that "love is not love which alters when it alteration finds." Love alters all the ti...

Travel is a set of corrective lenses that helps focus the planet's blurred reality.

Mild depression is a gradual and sometimes permanent thing that undermines people the way rust weake...

Despite every advancement, language remains the defining nexus of our humanity; it is where our know...

Life is most transfixing when you are awake to diversity, not only of ethnicity, ability, gender, be...

Never forget that the truest luxury is imagination, and that being a writer gives you the leeway to ...

I started traveling out of curiosity, but I have come to believe in travel's political importance, t...

Remember that writing things down makes them real; that it is nearly impossible to hate anyone whose...

I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful tha...

It's a strange poverty of the English language, and indeed, of many other languages, that we use thi...

Travel is an exercise partly in broadening yourself and partly in defining your own limits.

As you ripen, you’ll notice that time is the weirdest thing in the world, that these surprises are r...

Fortunately for me, my mother loved travel. Our first non-beach family trip abroad - to England, Fra...

Now, it's not that I think that being gay is the most amazing, wonderful thing in the world, but I h...

Parenting involves two separate activities. You have to change your child in that you need to educat...

If you banish the dragons, you banish the heroes...

Love is circumstantial we can love anyone if need be and losing the one we love is the singular cata...

In retrospect, it seems obvious that my research about parenting was also a means to subdue my anxie...

People still ask my husband and me which of us is the mom - which, as one lesbian friend pointed out...

Parenting is no sport for perfectionists.

Dealing with depression effectively is a mark not of weakness, but of strength.

When I was born, the wisdom was that homosexuality was an illness; that it was caused largely by som...

A great hope gets crushed every time someone reminds us that happiness can be neither assumed nor ea...