"Depressed people cannot lead a revolution because depressed……" — Andrew Solomon
"Depressed people cannot lead a revolution because depressed people can barely manage to get out of bed and put on their shoes and socks."
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60 Quotes by Andrew Solomon
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A large proportion of my best friends are a little bit crazy. ... I try to be cautious with my…
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Though many schizophrenics become curiously attached to their delusions, the fading of the nondelusional world puts them in loneliness beyond…
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Mild depression is a gradual and sometimes permanent thing that undermines people the way rust weakens iron ... Like physical…
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I hated being depressed, but it was also in depression that I learned my own acreage, the full extent of…
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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.…
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It is important not to suppress your feelings altogether when you are depressed. It is equally important to avoid terrible…
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Antonin Artaud wrote on one of his drawings, "Never real and always true," and that is how depression feels. You…
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When I was younger, not being accepted made me enraged, but now, I am not inclined to dismantle my history.…
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Having always imagined myself in a fairly slim minority, I suddenly saw that I was in a vast company. Difference…
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Some people are trapped by the belief that love comes in finite quantities, and that our kind of love exhausts…
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The most important thing to remember about depression is this: you do not get the time back. It is not…
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Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger, and the more alien the stranger, the stronger the…
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