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Them Quotes by Andrew Solomon
- Though many schizophrenics become curiously attached to their delusions, the fading of the nondelusional world puts them in loneliness beyond all reckoning, a fixed residence…
- Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believe it. Seek out the memories depression…
- Having always imagined myself in a fairly slim minority, I suddenly saw that I was in a vast company. Difference unites us. While each of…
- Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger, and the more alien the stranger, the stronger the whiff of negativity. We depend…
- All parenting turns on a crucial question: to what extent parents should accept their children for who they are, and to what extent they should…
- Then I repeated these words to my spirits: 'Leave me be; give me peace; and let me do the work of my life. I will…
- You need to take the traumas and make them part of who you've come to be, and you need to fold the worst events of…
- When you believe that you cannot stitch your own heart back together, go to work on the hearts of other people; there is no surer…
- I felt a funeral in my brain, and mourners to and fro kept treading, treading till I felt that sense was breaking through. And when…
- Kids with Down syndrome are, by and large, quite affectionate and relatively guileless, and frequently, the attachments to them grow and deepen. And the meaning…
More Them Quotes
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster