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Depression Quotes by Andrew Solomon

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Depression feels like a false reality that many describe as "never real and always true." The writer notes that loss of interest, overwhelming loneliness, and a drained vitality make daily tasks feel impossible, yet the experience also reveals deep self‑knowledge.

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I often say that the opposite of depression is not happiness but vitality.

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Shutting out the depression strengthens it. While you hide from it, it grows.

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The anxiety phase of my first depression lasted six months. It was incredibly paralyzing.

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Depression means that you have no point of view.

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“I chose fat and functional over slender and miserable.”

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

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Depressed people cannot lead a revolution because depressed people can barely manage to get out of bed and put on their shoes…

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It's important to say that depression has biological underpinnings, and that while medications do not seem to create irreversible changes in the…

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“Actually travel is the opposite of depression. Depression is a curling inward, and travel is an opening outward.”

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Living with depression is like trying to keep your balance while you dance with a goat -- it is perfectly sane to…

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Depression is so exhausting - it takes up so much of your time and energy - and silence about it, it really…

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The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep out of me.

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Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance.

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The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep away from me in that…

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“I hit walls of past pleasure all the time, and for me past pleasure is much harder to process then past pain...for…

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Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance. It is tumbleweed distress that thrives on…

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The most important thing to remember about depression is this: you do not get the time back. It is not tacked on…

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A large proportion of my best friends are a little bit crazy. ... I try to be cautious with my friends who…

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There is a false moral imperative that seems to be all-around us that treatment of depression, the medications and so on, are…

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Though many schizophrenics become curiously attached to their delusions, the fading of the nondelusional world puts them in loneliness beyond all reckoning,…

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“The people who succeed despite depression do three things. First, they seek an understanding of what's happening. They they accept that this…

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Mild depression is a gradual and sometimes permanent thing that undermines people the way rust weakens iron ... Like physical pain that…

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“In the throws of depression, one reaches a strange point at which it is impossible to see the line between ones own…

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It is important not to suppress your feelings altogether when you are depressed. It is equally important to avoid terrible arguments or…

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“It is not pleasant to experience decay, to find yourself exposed to the ravages of an almost daily rain, and to know…

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Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believe it. Seek out…

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One of the things that often gets lost in discussions of depression is that you know it's ridiculous. You know it's ridiculous…

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“You are constantly told in depression that your judgment is compromised, but a part of depression is that it touches cognition. That…

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“Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose,…

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“It is too often the quality of happiness that you feel at every moment its fragility, while depression seems when you are…

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“When I had the third breakdown, the mini-breakdown, I was in the late stages of writing this book. Since I could not…

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

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“Since I am writing a book about depression, I am often asked in social situations to describe my own experiences, and I…

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“The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality and my life, as I write this, is vital even when sad. I…

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Oh yes, I certainly have low days. I feel that in treating the depression, it's not so much that I've become happier…

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

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“the symptoms of depression cause depression. Loneliness is depressing, but depression also causes loneliness.”

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“There is so much pain in the world, and most of these people keep theirs secret, rolling through agonizing lives in invisible…

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Depression is the flaw in love. There's no such thing as love without the anticipation of loss. And that specter of despair…

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I hated being depressed, but it was also in depression that I learned my own acreage, the full extent of my soul.

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