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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? — Andrew Solomon

If you wake up feeling no pain, you know you're dead. (Russian expression) — Andrew Solomon

A crushed hope is suffused with a nobility that mere hopelessness can never know. — Andrew Solomon

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. — Andrew Solomon

Hatred does not obliterate love. Indeed, the two are in constant fellowship. — Andrew Solomon

A lot of people are very political when they are young, and then they outgrow it. — Andrew Solomon

Rebuilding of the self in and after depression requires love, insight, work, and, most of all, time. — Andrew Solomon

The absence of words is the absence of intimacy. There are experiences that are starved for language. — Andrew Solomon

Exercise because it's good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds. — Andrew Solomon

I look at the rates of suicide among gay teens. They are so, so high for suicide attempts and for completed suicides. — Andrew Solomon

I had known a couple of people who had died, but the loss of my mother contained something of the profoundly unknowable. — Andrew Solomon

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. — Andrew Solomon

We live in the right time, even if it doesn't always feel like it. — Andrew Solomon

My goal is to stay safely in between self-analysis and self-destruction. — Andrew Solomon

Religion is so focused on family. These days, for many people, being gay is also focused on family. — Andrew Solomon

We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences. — Andrew Solomon

If your love didn't always contain the possibility of loss, it would be very different from human love as we know it. — Andrew Solomon

I hate the loss of diversity in the world, even though I sometimes get a little worn out by being that diversity. — Andrew Solomon

Despair is part of love. — Andrew Solomon

It is easy to keep secrets by being honest in an ironic tone of voice. — Andrew Solomon

The tragedies that are being brought about vastly outweigh the benefits that are being achieved. — Andrew Solomon

Oppression sometimes benefits its victims more than its perpetrators. — Andrew Solomon

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. — Andrew Solomon

We cannot bear a pointless torment, but we can endure great pain if we believe that it's purposeful. — Andrew Solomon

I don't believe that there is anyone of faith whose faith would not be strengthened by those experiences of family. — Andrew Solomon

I hated being depressed, but it was also in depression that I learned my own acreage, the full extent of my soul. — Andrew Solomon

There is a great deal of sin that comes from homosexuals who believe their homosexuality is a sin. — Andrew Solomon

I love to communicate, and I love music. That's why I always thought not being able to hear would be a tragedy. — Andrew Solomon

Some autistic people may emerge from their condition, but nobody knows when and why. — Andrew Solomon

Oppression breeds the power to oppose it. — Andrew Solomon

Our needs are our greatest asset. It turns out I've learned to give all the things that I need. — Andrew Solomon

I chose fat and functional over slender and miserable. — Andrew Solomon

[P]laces that seem lovely at first glance may actually be sinister, but places that feel sinister seldom turn out to be lovely. — Andrew Solomon

As organs go, the brain is quite an important one, and its malfunctions should be addressed accordingly. Chemistry — Andrew Solomon

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. — Andrew Solomon

I hate the comparative idea that you have to love your spouse more than you love your parents. — Andrew Solomon

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. — Andrew Solomon

Depression means that you have no point of view. — Andrew Solomon

To wage war on depression is to fight against oneself, and it is important to know that in advance of the battles. — Andrew Solomon

must love them for themselves, — Andrew Solomon

I think you can't deny that because the cochlear implant exists, the signing world is shrinking. — Andrew Solomon

Cleaving to our own lives, with all their challenges and limitations and particularities, is vital. — Andrew Solomon

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. — Andrew Solomon

The strengthening of faith, I think, is the ultimate goal of organized religion altogether. — Andrew Solomon

It is nearly impossible to hate anyone whose story you know. — Andrew Solomon

I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good. — Andrew Solomon

The idea of what it is like to lose everything is awful. — Andrew Solomon

Being gay is immutable. — Andrew Solomon

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. — Andrew Solomon

Depression frequently destroys the power of mind over mood. — Andrew Solomon

The parental predisposition to love prevails in the most harrowing of circumstances. — Andrew Solomon

Treating an identity as an illness invites real illness to make a braver stand. — Andrew Solomon

If you banish the dragons, you banish the heroes ... — Andrew Solomon

People ... don't want to be cured or changed or eliminated. They want to be whoever it is that they've come to be. — Andrew Solomon

Ease makes less of an impression on us than struggle. — Andrew Solomon

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. — Andrew Solomon

Love, no matter what. — Andrew Solomon

Fixing is the illness model; acceptance is the identity model; which way any family goes reflects their assumptions and resources. — Andrew Solomon

Identity itself should be not a smug label or a gold medal but a revolution. — Andrew Solomon

With children who have never said a word, parents tend to assume, for better or for worse, that there isn't any language there. — Andrew Solomon

Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance. — Andrew Solomon

No one had forewarned me, however, that if you live abroad any good while, the notion of home is permanently compromised. — Andrew Solomon

I like the relative literacy of at least some of England. I mean, I didn't come for the food or the weather! — Andrew Solomon

Parents often confuse the anomaly of developing fast with the objective of developing profoundly. — Andrew Solomon

You lose the ability to trust anyone, to be touched, to grieve. Eventually, you are simply absent from yourself. — Andrew Solomon

Life is enriched by difficulty; love is made more acute when it requires exertion. — Andrew Solomon

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. — Andrew Solomon

It's deeply humbling to realize that there is no such thing as a society with a purchase on truth. — Andrew Solomon

People who are different are constantly dealing with families who don't understand them. — Andrew Solomon

I realized that I had demanded that my parents accept me but had resisted accepting them. — Andrew Solomon

The things that save you are as frequently trivial as monumental. — Andrew Solomon

I believe that organized religion is an ornament to the truth, and that aesthetics are part of its power. — Andrew Solomon

There is neither a cure for nor a way to repair autism. There is no implant like there is for the deaf. — Andrew Solomon

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. — Andrew Solomon

I can see the beauty of glass objects fully at the moment when they slip from my hand — Andrew Solomon

Science still won't explain the mysterious nature of love and despair. — Andrew Solomon

I tend to find the ecstasy hidden in ordinary joys because I did not expect those joys to be ordinary to me. — Andrew Solomon

Travel is a set of corrective lenses that helps focus the planet's blurred reality. — Andrew Solomon

The absence of marriages will result in all kinds of financial burdens that gay people wouldn't face if they could get married. — Andrew Solomon

The Church responds to antiquated social realities, and those realities remain much more current in Utah precisely because of the Church. — Andrew Solomon

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. — Andrew Solomon

I'm a huge believer in science. But I don't think it explains everything. — Andrew Solomon

The more gay people can tell our stories, the more other people will accept gay people. — Andrew Solomon

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. — Andrew Solomon

Perhaps depression can best be described as emotional pain that forces itself on us against our will, and then breaks free of its externals. — Andrew Solomon

Em unless you got the money to pay. Fred has been given a regimen of meds for HIV, but he stopped — 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. — Andrew Solomon

Fold the worst events of your life into a narrative of triumph. — Andrew Solomon

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. — Andrew Solomon

Mothering requires two impulses- the impulse to hold on, and the impulse to push away. — Andrew Solomon

There is no contradiction between loving someone and feeling burdened by that person; indeed, love tends to magnify the burden. — Andrew Solomon

Mental illness is real illness — Andrew Solomon

The campaign against polygamy, around which a lot of anti-Mormon sentiment was organized, seems horrific to me. — Andrew Solomon

When the child does not conform to this image, the parents often need help in adapting their behavior to the reality - they — Andrew Solomon

Parenthood always involves recognizing your child as separate and different from you. — Andrew Solomon

I did grow up in a household in which I felt that to be myself was to damage the people I loved. — Andrew Solomon

I have two nexuses of sadness about the Mormon Church. The first is the effect the Church's position on homosexuality has on Mormons. — Andrew Solomon

Every organization does good and bad things. — Andrew Solomon

It's not nature versus nurture. It's nurturing your nature. — Andrew Solomon