Life is enriched by difficulty; love is made more acute when it requires exertion. — 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
“Those who believe their suffering has been valuable love more readily than those who see no meaning in their pain. Suffering does… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
We need to acknowledge that families come in multiple shapes and sizes, that love is not a finite asset, and that caregiving… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
“It is not true that "love is not love which alters when it alteration finds." Love alters all the time; it is… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
“If something or someone doesn’t work, it’s in a state of grace, progress, and evolution. It will attract love and empathy. If… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I have found that the greatest stories of acceptance and love and the ugliest stories of hideous cruelty and abuse have equally… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I'm not studying everything that can go wrong. What I'm studying is how much love there can be, even when everything appears… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I don't accept subtractive models of love, only additive ones. And I believe that in the same way we need species diversity… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Some people are trapped by the belief that love comes in finite quantities, and that our kind of love exhausts the supply… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I hope the Church will examine what is good and what is ill, and what good could be achieved by getting the… — 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
I think what the Church should ideally do, and does appear to do in the context of straight relationships, is to support… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believe it. Seek out… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I'm endlessly intrigued by stories, and I love helping someone to formulate his or her story. I can drift off when I'm… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
“To look deep into your child's eyes and see in him both yourself and something utterly strange, and then to develop a… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
“In the heat of an argument, my mother once told me, "Someday you can go to a therapist and tell him all… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Philip Galanes has fashioned a novel both bleak and funny about a young man's struggle to sort out his troubled love: the… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
“Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose,… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
“I wish I'd been accepted sooner and better. When I was younger, not being accepted made me enraged, but now, I am… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
The idea of anyone contemplating our family and witnessing the affection that we all have for one another and seeing evil in… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Science still won't explain the mysterious nature of love and despair. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I'm sure that if we had enough sophistication, someone could look at what my changes in brain structure were as I came… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Depression is the flaw in love. There's no such thing as love without the anticipation of loss. And that specter of despair… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose,… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
In coming to an appreciation of the Mormon Church, one of the things that has been most compelling to me is the… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
If really good people who are deeply committed and who are thriving spiritually have to beat down the nature with which they… — 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
