"Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression……" — Andrew Solomon
"Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance."
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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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More Circumstance Quotes
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Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that…
— Neil Armstrong
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So…
— James A. Baldwin
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Things present themselves to you, and it's how you choose to deal with them that reveals who you are. We…
— Cate Blanchett
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People with deep faith and big hearts are concerned, as I am about the circumstance that Ms. Schiavo is in.…
— Jeb Bush
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If you walked by a street and you was walking a concrete and you saw a rose growing from concrete,…
— Tupac Shakur
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Why did the achievers overcome problems while thousands are overwhelmed by theirs? They refused to hold on to the common…
— John C. Maxwell
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Every river appears to consist of a main trunk, fed from a variety of branches, each running in a valley…
— John Playfair
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Don't wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try to use ordinary situations.
— Charles Francis Richter
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The only reason we stress is something is happening that we decided should not be happening. It is not the…
— Kyle Cease
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War is the province of chance. in no other sphere of human activity must such a margin be left for…
— Carl von Clausewitz
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Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to…
— Seneca the Younger
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What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance?
— Theodore Roethke
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