Andrew Solomon
Biography
Quotes
- Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose, and depression is the mechanism of that despair.
- I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.
- Antonin Artaud wrote on one of his drawings, "Never real and always true," and that is how depression feels. You know that it is not real, that you are someone else, and yet you know that it is absolutely true.
