Love Quotes Quote by Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

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

“Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believe it. Seek out the memories depression takes away and project them into the future. Be brave; be strong; take your pills. Exercise because it's good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds. Eat when food itself disgusts you. Reason with yourself when you have lost your reason.”

“It is important not to suppress your feelings altogether when you are depressed. It is equally important to avoid terrible arguments or expressions of outrage. You should steer clear of emotionally damaging behavior. People forgive, but it is best not to stir things up to the point at which forgiveness is required. When you are depressed, you need the love of other people, and yet depression fosters actions that destroy that love. Depressed people often stick pins into their own life rafts. The conscious mind can intervene. One is not helpless.”

“For which of my bad parts didst thou first fall in love with me?”

“Every time I close my eyes, it's like a dark paradise. No one compares to you, but there's no you, except in my dreams tonight”

“He was too perfect, despite being one of the most imperfect people I knew.”

“If he knew, if he only knew that I was giving him every chance to put two and two together and come up with a number bigger than infinity.”

“They were still in the happier stage of love. They were full of brave illusions about each other, tremendous illusions, so that the communion of self with self seemed to be on a plane where no other human relations mattered. They both seemed to have arrived there with an extraordinary innocence as though a series of pure accidents had driven them together, so many accidents that at last they were forced to conclude that they were for each other. They had arrived with clean hands, or so it seemed, after no traffic with the merely curious and clandestine.”