--- title: "Best Depression Quotes by Andrew Solomon" description: "47 Depression quotes by Andrew Solomon. Plus more from Andrew Solomon and more Depression sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c82/andrew-solomon-1140_depression_actually-travel-is-the-opposite-of-depre_2057330.jpg" --- > [“Actually travel is the opposite of depression. Depression is a curling inward, and travel is an opening outward.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-solomon/actually-travel-is-the-opposite-of-depression-depression-is-a-curling/) [Andrew Solomon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-solomon/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c82/andrew-solomon-1140_depression_actually-travel-is-the-opposite-of-depre_2057330.jpg) > [Living with depression is like trying to keep your balance while you dance with a goat -- it is perfectly sane to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-solomon/living-with-depression-is-like-trying-to-keep-your-balance-while-you/) [Andrew Solomon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-solomon/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/483/andrew-solomon-1140_balance_living-with-depression-is-like-trying-to_2451463.jpg) > [Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance. It is tumbleweed distress that thrives on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-solomon/grief-is-depression-in-proportion-to-circumstance-depression-is-grief-2/) [Andrew Solomon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-solomon/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a27/andrew-solomon-1140_air_grief-is-depression-in-proportion-to-cir_1623806.jpg) > [Mild depression is a gradual and sometimes permanent thing that undermines people the way rust weakens iron ... Like physical pain that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-solomon/mild-depression-is-a-gradual-and-sometimes-permanent-thing-that/) [Andrew Solomon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-solomon/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/935/andrew-solomon-1140_depression_mild-depression-is-a-gradual-and-sometim_3191322.jpg) > [“The people who succeed despite depression do three things. First, they seek an understanding of what's happening. They they accept that this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-solomon/the-people-who-succeed-despite-depression-do-three-things-first-they/) [Andrew Solomon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-solomon/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6d7/andrew-solomon-1140_depression_the-people-who-succeed-despite-depressio_3137819.jpg) > [There is a false moral imperative that seems to be all-around us that treatment of depression, the medications and so on, are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-solomon/there-is-a-false-moral-imperative-that-seems-to-be-all-around-us-that/) [Andrew Solomon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-solomon/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aba/andrew-solomon-1140_artifice_there-is-a-false-moral-imperative-that-s_1065481.jpg) > [Though many schizophrenics become curiously attached to their delusions, the fading of the nondelusional world puts them in loneliness beyond all reckoning,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-solomon/though-many-schizophrenics-become-curiously-attached-to-their/) [Andrew Solomon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-solomon/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/945/andrew-solomon-1140_delusion_though-many-schizophrenics-become-curiou_242063.jpg) ## Other authors on Depression - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b015/author-leslie-59850.jpg) Leslie 94 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/depression/leslie/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b009/author-elizabeth-wurtzel-32654.jpg) Elizabeth Wurtzel 71 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/depression/elizabeth-wurtzel/) - [Jennifer Elisabeth 49 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/depression/jennifer-elisabeth/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b014/author-kay-redfield-jamison-55816.jpg) Kay Redfield Jamison 44 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/depression/kay-redfield-jamison/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-william-styron-95952.jpg) William Styron 26 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/depression/william-styron/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b003/author-kris-kidd-8322.jpg) Kris Kidd 25 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/depression/kris-kidd/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-sylvia-plath-88486.jpg) Sylvia Plath 22 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/depression/sylvia-plath/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b017/author-matt-haig-65440.jpg) Matt Haig 22 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/depression/matt-haig/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b001/author-sangfroid-stalker-1340.jpg) SangFroid Stalker 21 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/depression/sangfroid-stalker/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b018/author-ned-vizzini-70633.jpg) Ned Vizzini 21 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/depression/ned-vizzini/) - [Sally Brampton 18 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/depression/sally-brampton/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-stephen-fry-87000.jpg) Stephen Fry 16 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/depression/stephen-fry/) ## More by Andrew Solomon > [“If you banish the dragons, you banish the heroes...”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-solomon/if-you-banish-the-dragons-you-banish-the-heroes/) [Andrew Solomon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-solomon/) > [I started traveling out of curiosity, but I have come to believe in travel's political importance, that encouraging a nation's citizenry to travel may…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-solomon/i-started-traveling-out-of-curiosity-but-i-have-come-to-believe-in/) [Andrew Solomon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-solomon/) > [When I was born, the wisdom was that homosexuality was an illness; that it was caused largely by somebody's mother, and a distorted relationship…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-solomon/when-i-was-born-the-wisdom-was-that-homosexuality-was-an-illness-that/) [Andrew Solomon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-solomon/) > [A lot of people are very political when they are young, and then they outgrow it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-solomon/a-lot-of-people-are-very-political-when-they-are-young-and-then-they/) [Andrew Solomon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-solomon/) > [Having always imagined myself in a fairly slim minority, I suddenly saw that I was in a vast company. Difference unites us. While each…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-solomon/having-always-imagined-myself-in-a-fairly-slim-minority-i-suddenly/) [Andrew Solomon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-solomon/) > [If your love didn't always contain the possibility of loss, it would be very different from human love as we know it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-solomon/if-your-love-didn-t-always-contain-the-possibility-of-loss-it-would/) [Andrew Solomon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-solomon/) > [Antonin Artaud wrote on one of his drawings, "Never real and always true," and that is how depression feels. You know that it is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-solomon/antonin-artaud-wrote-on-one-of-his-drawings-never-real-and-always/) [Andrew Solomon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-solomon/) > [I met people on college campuses who were defining themselves as genderqueer to express revolutionary feelings, or to communicate their individuality; they were gender…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-solomon/i-met-people-on-college-campuses-who-were-defining-themselves-as/) [Andrew Solomon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-solomon/) > [“In the throws of depression, one reaches a strange point at which it is impossible to see the line between ones own theatricality and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-solomon/in-the-throws-of-depression-one-reaches-a-strange-point-at-which-it/) [Andrew Solomon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-solomon/) > [“Since I am writing a book about depression, I am often asked in social situations to describe my own experiences, and I usually end…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-solomon/since-i-am-writing-a-book-about-depression-i-am-often-asked-in-social/) [Andrew Solomon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-solomon/) > [Loving our own children is an exercise for the imagination.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-solomon/loving-our-own-children-is-an-exercise-for-the-imagination/) [Andrew Solomon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-solomon/) > [One the one hand, the simple fact that there are children and that I do have an effect on them has been one of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-solomon/one-the-one-hand-the-simple-fact-that-there-are-children-and-that-i/) [Andrew Solomon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-solomon/) > [I grew up feeling that to be gay was a tragedy. I didn't grow up thinking that it was morally wrong, but I grew…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-solomon/i-grew-up-feeling-that-to-be-gay-was-a-tragedy-i-didn-t-grow-up/) [Andrew Solomon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-solomon/) > [We need to acknowledge that families come in multiple shapes and sizes, that love is not a finite asset, and that caregiving involves more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-solomon/we-need-to-acknowledge-that-families-come-in-multiple-shapes-and/) [Andrew Solomon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-solomon/) > [I had always wanted to have children, so it caused me a lot of grief when I was younger, and I had supposed that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-solomon/i-had-always-wanted-to-have-children-so-it-caused-me-a-lot-of-grief/) [Andrew Solomon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-solomon/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/depression/andrew-solomon/#itemlist", "name": "Best Depression Quotes by Andrew Solomon", "numberOfItems": 7, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Actually travel is the opposite of depression. 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