Andrew Solomon Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Andrew Solomon
Andrew Solomon Famous Quotes & Sayings
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At the end of the day, will God be interested primarily in whether I have been kind and helped others, or in whether I was baptized and how?
I had always wanted to have children, so it caused me a lot of grief when I was younger, and I had supposed that gay people could not be parents.
The worst of depression lies in a present moment that cannot escape the past it idealizes or deplores.
Rebuilding of the self in and after depression requires love, insight, work, and, most of all, time.
The absence of words is the absence of intimacy. There are experiences that are starved for language.
I look at the rates of suicide among gay teens. They are so, so high for suicide attempts and for completed suicides.
I don't believe that raising my voice in song is going to be pleasing to a God who is sitting upstairs somewhere, waiting to be pleased.
I had known a couple of people who had died, but the loss of my mother contained something of the profoundly unknowable.
We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences.
If your love didn't always contain the possibility of loss, it would be very different from human love as we know it.
I hate the loss of diversity in the world, even though I sometimes get a little worn out by being that diversity.
Grief is a humble angel who leaves you with strong, clear thoughts and a sense of your own depth. Depression is a demon who leaves you appalled.
As organs go, the brain is quite an important one, and its malfunctions should be addressed accordingly. Chemistry
I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.
We cannot bear a pointless torment, but we can endure great pain if we believe that it's purposeful.
[P]laces that seem lovely at first glance may actually be sinister, but places that feel sinister seldom turn out to be lovely.
I love to communicate, and I love music. That's why I always thought not being able to hear would be a tragedy.
Belonging is one of the things that makes life bearable, and it can be tough to look at a binary world and choose against both sides.
It is the aloneness within us made manifest, and it destroys not only connection to others but also the ability to be peacefully alone with oneself.
I have spent a lot of my life trying to do good and be a humanitarian, to write about difficult places, and to tell the story of oppressed peoples.
I'm not studying everything that can go wrong. What I'm studying is how much love there can be, even when everything appears to be going wrong.
I hated being depressed, but it was also in depression that I learned my own acreage, the full extent of my soul.
People ... don't want to be cured or changed or eliminated. They want to be whoever it is that they've come to be.
I just look at my own life, which is full of error as all life is. I have done plenty of things that I am not proud of.
I don't understand what the nature of God is. But I do have the feeling that I'm at some feet, and lucky to be there.
Fixing is the illness model; acceptance is the identity model; which way any family goes reflects their assumptions and resources.
Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance.
No one had forewarned me, however, that if you live abroad any good while, the notion of home is permanently compromised.
I like the relative literacy of at least some of England. I mean, I didn't come for the food or the weather!
You lose the ability to trust anyone, to be touched, to grieve. Eventually, you are simply absent from yourself.
I believe that organized religion is an ornament to the truth, and that aesthetics are part of its power.
There is neither a cure for nor a way to repair autism. There is no implant like there is for the deaf.
I have always believed in trying to be a good person and giving to the world, and treating others in a just, kind, merciful way.
I tend to find the ecstasy hidden in ordinary joys because I did not expect those joys to be ordinary to me.
In typical circumstances, to have children who won't care for you in your dotage is to be King Lear. Disability changes the reciprocity equation.
The absence of marriages will result in all kinds of financial burdens that gay people wouldn't face if they could get married.
The Church responds to antiquated social realities, and those realities remain much more current in Utah precisely because of the Church.
I'm sure that if we had enough sophistication, someone could look at what my changes in brain structure were as I came to feel more deeply in love.
Being in a marriage and having children is the greatest pleasure, but it is certainly not the easiest pleasure. It is not like eating ice cream.
Perhaps depression can best be described as emotional pain that forces itself on us against our will, and then breaks free of its externals.
Depressed people cannot lead a revolution because depressed people can barely manage to get out of bed and put on their shoes and socks.
Being gay is immutable. Maybe someday we'll figure out more of the science and it will be changeable, but we have no leads so far.
There is no contradiction between loving someone and feeling burdened by that person; indeed, love tends to magnify the burden.
The campaign against polygamy, around which a lot of anti-Mormon sentiment was organized, seems horrific to me.
When the child does not conform to this image, the parents often need help in adapting their behavior to the reality - they