Andrew Solomon Quotes

I never define depression, clinical or otherwise. It's the basis of most life, it seems to me, in the modern world. We're all depressed.

Depression, if it's an unconsciously elected experience, is a luxury.

Grief comes and goes, but depression is unremitting.

The truth is, I've always been wracked with self-loathing and terrible, paralysing depression.

One of the things that frequently gets lost in descriptions of depression is that the depressed person often knows that it is a ludicrous condition to feel so disabled by the ordinary business of quotidian life.

I'm a dramatic, depressive person.

I think I am naturally depressive.

I feel for everybody that goes through it because depression is real, and it doesn't take much to put you in that state of mind to where you think everybody's against you, you're up against the world and that's not true.

When you're depressed, there's no calendar. There are no dates, there's no day, there's no night, there's no seconds, there's no minutes, there's nothing. You're just existing in this cold, murky, ever-heavy atmosphere, like they put you inside a vial of mercury.

Depression starts slow.

If you know someone who's depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn't a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather.

You have good days and bad days, and depression's something that, you know, is always with you.

Sometimes I wish I had an easy answer for why I'm depressed.

Your melancholy. Or depression. Along with nine-tenths of the afflictions I've studied, diagnosed, attempted to treat. Call them whatever you like, but they're just different names for loneliness. That's what lets the darkness in. That's what you have to fight.

All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously.

I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed.

Depression - that limp word for the storm of black panic and half-demented malfunction - had over the years worked itself out in Charlotte's life in a curious pattern. Its onset was often imperceptible: like an assiduous housekeeper locking up a rambling mansion, it noiselessly went about and turned off, one by one, the mind's thousand small accesses to pleasure.

It's interesting to watch people go through it in something like this. I mean, what other then Melancholia films do they portray depression in?

I can only speak from my own experience, and I would say that the depression I experienced feels like a chemical change. When it came over me, when it comes over me, it feels like it's coming over me like a flu.

Trust me, you know when you've got depression.

I've definitely had times in my life where I've been depressed and not able to do anything at all.

There are a variety of techniques to help people change the kind of thinking that leads them to become depressed. These techniques are called cognitive behavioral therapy.

I had a lot of depression as a kid.

The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.

Depression is the inability to construct a future.