Andrew Solomon Quotes

It looks as if I were meant to be alone, and that any hope of happiness is not meant. Am I too old to acquire the knack for happiness?

Loneliness is the ultimate poverty.

A big part of depression is feeling really lonely, even if you're in a room full of a million people.

I think one of the scariest things about depression is that it exists along with the happiness and the joy, and it kind of plays with it and sucks the color from it.

Sometimes I'm not into being a human.

I thought it would be a fun change of pace to do a show about a really sad, depressed character.

Depression is like the worst disease you can get. It's devastating.

I was a sad kid.

I was in depression. I was in my room, dark every night, not wanting to talk to nobody, not going out with my friends, not doing anything, not having a great time. It was a lot of dark nights.

Depression, for me, has been a couple of different things - but the first time I felt it, I felt helpless, hopeless, and things I had never felt before. I lost myself and my will to live.

Depression is so treacherous - it can be so alluring as well as punishing. After all, it's yours and yours alone - no one else can interfere with it.

Loneliness is always there, it's a phase that comes and goes and it is a very difficult phase.

Everybody has unhappiness.

Wherever you are in the world, whoever you are with, sometimes you feel desperately lonely.

Sometimes people do things because they are sad or because they are upset or were hurt by other people.

If a documentary crew were to follow me around, they'd probably think they were making a film about the saddest person in the world.

A lot of my songs are about loneliness and losing relationships. Even the ones that are happy, there's a lonely undertone to them.

Going out and being nice to the world at large doesn't make me feel good, so I replace that with things, with technology that does get me excited and does get my brain spinning, until one day it stops spinning, and then you can bury me.

Loneliness can become a downward spiral.

Nobody can be happy all the time, and if you aim to be, ultimately you will never be happy.

At the beginning of 'A Christmas Carol,' Scrooge embodies one of the central tenets of depression: that one has always been this way - and always will be.

I wasn't present for my own life for a long time. I wasn't there; I wasn't in my relationships; I wasn't in my band; I wasn't in my soul - I was disconnected from all of it. I would let myself live in a miserable situation forever, mostly of my own making. I made my own misery and made the people around me miserable.

The disturbing truth we have to recognize is that Bourdain is not alone in his loneliness and depression.

For every single person who's struggled with depression, there's this weird part of your brain that tells you you're the only person who's ever felt like that, even if you know for a fact it's not true.

I'm always sad.