Andrew Solomon Quotes
One of the things that often gets lost in discussions of depression is that you know it's ridiculous. You know it's ridiculous while you're experiencing it. You know that most people manage to listen to their messages, and eat lunch, and organise themselves to take a shower and go out the front door, and that it's not a big deal. And yet you are nonetheless in its grip and you are unable to figure out any way around it.
Quotes to Explore
-
I collect handkerchiefs. I know that's sort of old-timey, but my mom started the collection for me, and now I have a bunch. Basically, I have a myriad of beautiful handkerchiefs, and I carry them like a grandmother in my purse. And I opt for hankies in any situation.
-
In my heart of hearts my motivation would always have been to be the best, and I think that athletics is probably what I was built for.
-
Make that extra effort for every relationship. Whether it's with your parents, your children, your husband or your friends. It makes a difference to them. I try to give my kids a lot of solo time where I play with them, talk to them, listen to them. Similarly, you give time for your workout. You slot a time for it, no matter what.
-
I quite like Low, the band from Minnesota. They're absolutely mesmerizing. I get much the same feeling from anything that Will Oldham does.
-
Life does not owe me a shred.
-
I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
-
Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
-
Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
-
For about ten years now, the struggle for democracy and the respect of human rights has been in the focus point - if not a commodity - of political groups aiming to rise to power.
-
There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
-
You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
-
I don't know how to say no, and that's a weakness.
-
As long as you understand that you find happiness through family, friends and love, then money is just a nice bonus.
-
I love books.
-
I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
-
Things happen for a reason. I'm happy, but not I'm not satisfied with the things I'm doing.
-
The teaching thing, the one where I have to impart my knowledge, is probably what comes the least naturally to me because I'm an absorber of things.
-
To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.
-
Nick Diaz is a guy who walks forward, has great boxing skills.
-
I'm not really an animal person.
-
I think that part of being human is being alone, and being lonely. I think one of the stresses on a lot of our friendships is that we require the people we love to take away that loneliness. and they really can't. And so, when we still feel lonely, even in the company of people we love, we become angry with them because they don't do what we think they're supposed to. Which is really something that they can't do for us.
-
I like to come home and completely forget about work.
-
One of the things that often gets lost in discussions of depression is that you know it's ridiculous. You know it's ridiculous while you're experiencing it. You know that most people manage to listen to their messages, and eat lunch, and organise themselves to take a shower and go out the front door, and that it's not a big deal. And yet you are nonetheless in its grip and you are unable to figure out any way around it.
