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
“I regret everything because it has just finished, and already when I was twelve, I lamented the time that had gone by.… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I think a lot of the time people assume that their values are universal. And they don't understand which aspects of their… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
The problem is that even as you reveal the mysteries in your past, you are accumulating them in the present; complete honesty… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Depression is so exhausting - it takes up so much of your time and energy - and silence about it, it really… — 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
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
Absence does not so much make the heart grow fonder as give the heart time to integrate what it has not previously… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
When I remember how unhappy I was in adolescence - about the fact that, though I wasn't really using the term to… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
The most important thing to remember about depression is this: you do not get the time back. It is not tacked on… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
“I hit walls of past pleasure all the time, and for me past pleasure is much harder to process then past pain...for… — 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
“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
I think morality is more important than ever before. As we gain more power, the question of what we do with it… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
There is enormous shame around depression of any kind and at any time. And there's enormous social stigma attached to it, which… — 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 can see the beauty of glass objects fully at the moment when they slip from my hand — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
In these xenophobic times, when politicians are stoking everyone's anxiety about threats from abroad, I would argue that engaging with the rest… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
“While people argue with one another about the specifics of Freud’s work and blame him for the prejudices of his time, they… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
“I still remember the moment. I ordered a chicken salad and it tasted like chalk. I knew I was depressed. And I… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
While people argue with one another about the specifics of Freud's work and blame him for the prejudices of his time, they… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I have a very difficult time believing that there is some being who is going to invite me into heaven or not… — 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
