Andrew Solomon Quotes About Loss

Quotes about: Loss

• Depression is the flaw in love. There's no such thing as love without the anticipation of loss. And that specter of despair can be the engine of intimacy.

  Andrew Solomon

  Loss, Despair, Anticipation

• I had always thought of myself as fairly tough and fairly strong and fairly able to cope with anything. And then I had a series of personal losses. My mother died. A relationship that I was in came to end, and a variety of other things went awry.

  Andrew Solomon

  Mother, Strong, Loss

• If your love didn't always contain the possibility of loss, it would be very different from human love as we know it.

  Andrew Solomon

  Loss, Different, Would Be

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• I had known a couple of people who had died, but the loss of my mother contained something of the profoundly unknowable.

  Andrew Solomon

  Mother, Couple, Loss

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• That, in essence, is the catastrophe of suicide for those who survive: not only the loss of someone, but the loss of the chance to persuade that person to act differently, the loss of the chance to connect.

  Andrew Solomon

  Suicide, Loss, Essence

  Andrew Solomon (2014). “The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression”, p.265, Simon and Schuster

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