Andrew Soloman - ?The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression?, comments from his mother shortly before her suicide

Don?t think you are paying me some kind of tribute if you let my death become the great event of your life. The best tribute you can pay me as a mother is to go on and have a good and fulfilling life. Enjoy what you have.
Andrew Soloman - ?The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression?, on his belief that grief is profoundly important for the human cond
I believe that its most important function is in the formation of attachment. If we did not suffer enough loss to fear it, we could not love intensely.

- Andrew Soloman - ?The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression?, comments from his mother shortly before her suicide