I often say that the opposite of depression is not happiness but vitality. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I tend to find the ecstasy hidden in ordinary joys, because I did not expect those joys to be ordinary to me. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep out of me. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep away from me in that… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
You don't think in depression that you've put on a gray veil and are seeing the world through the haze of a… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
A great hope gets crushed every time someone reminds us that happiness can be neither assumed nor earned; that we are all… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Most people imagine that resolving particular problems will make them happy. If only one had more money, or love, or success, then… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Sometimes, people end up thankful for what they mourned. You cannot achieve this state by seeking tragedy, but you can keep yourself… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
“It is a surprise to me to like myself; among all the elaborate possibilities I contemplated for my future, that never figured.… — andrew solomon Copy Share Image
“It is too often the quality of happiness that you feel at every moment its fragility, while depression seems when you are… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
“The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality and my life, as I write this, is vital even when sad. I… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
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… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
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… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
A lot of people are very political when they are young, and then they outgrow it. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Having always imagined myself in a fairly slim minority, I suddenly saw that I was in a vast company. Difference unites us. While each… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
If your love didn't always contain the possibility of loss, it would be very different from human love as we know it. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Antonin Artaud wrote on one of his drawings, "Never real and always true," and that is how depression feels. You know that it is… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I met people on college campuses who were defining themselves as genderqueer to express revolutionary feelings, or to communicate their individuality; they were gender… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
“In the throws of depression, one reaches a strange point at which it is impossible to see the line between ones own theatricality and… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
“Since I am writing a book about depression, I am often asked in social situations to describe my own experiences, and I usually end… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
One the one hand, the simple fact that there are children and that I do have an effect on them has been one of… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
