"Treating an identity as an illness invites real……" — Andrew Solomon
"Treating an identity as an illness invites real illness to make a braver stand."
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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 Braver Quotes
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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over…
— Aristotle
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Where all your rights become only an accumulated wrong; where men must beg with bated breath for leave to subsist…
— Roger Casement
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We're always hearing about risk-takers whose risks paid off, but they are no braver than those whose risks end in…
— Frank Skinner
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God, make me brave for life: oh, braver than this. Let me straighten after pain, As a tree straightens after…
— Grace Noll Crowell
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Men always want to die for something. For someone. I can see the appeal. You do it once and it’s…
— Victor LaValle
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When you live in holiness, when you really try to stop sinning, you become braver. You become more courageous, you…
— Jim Caviezel
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But in some ways I think it's braver to do it like this. And, to an extent, you know what?…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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I have done one braver thing than all the Worthies did, and yet a braver thence doth spring, which is,…
— John Donne
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Brave is the lion tamer, brave is the world subduer, but braver is the one who has subdued himself.
— Johann Gottfried Herder
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You remember the Duke of Wellington was talking of the Battle of Waterloo when he said that it was not…
— Paul H. Dunn
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I believe it's time that women truly owned their superpowers and used their beauty and strength to change the world…
— Janelle Monae
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Just trying to do something - just being there, showing up - is how we get braver. Self-esteem is about…
— Joy Browne
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