Grief is so human, and it hits everyone at one point or another, at least, in their lives. If you love, you… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Love, like life, is much stranger and far more complicated than one is brought up to believe. — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Chaos and intensity are no substitute for lasting love, nor are they necessarily an improvement on real life. — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
No amount of love can cure madness or unblacken one's dark moods. Love can help, it can make the pain more tolerable,… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
I was late to understand that chaos and intensity are no subsitute for lasting love, nor are they necessarily an improvement on… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“Normal people are not always boring. On the contrary. Volatility and passion, although often more romantic and enticing, are not intrinsically preferable… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“ No amount of love can cure madness or unblacken one's dark moods. Love can help, it can make the pain more… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
I love animals, and I was always attracted to the idea of being a zoo veterinarian or a veterinarian with the circus. — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
I look back over my shoulder and feel the presence of an intense young girl and then a volatile and disturbed young… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“We all build internal sea walls to keep at bay the sadnesses of life and the often overwhelming forces within our minds...… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“When I first thought about writing this book, I conceived of it as a book about moods, and an illness of moods,… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Exuberance is a gift of grace that allows us to move on, to seek, to love again. — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Love has, at its best, made the inherent sadness of life bearable, and its beauty manifest. — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“...even though [my psychiatrist] understood mor than anyone how much I felt I was losing--in energy, vivacity, and originality--by taking medication, he never was… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
When people are suicidal, their thinking is paralyzed, their options appear spare or nonexistent, their mood is despairing, and hopelessness permeates their entire mental… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
It's more common than not that bipolar illness will start in the teens. One of the reasons I spend a lot of time on… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
I think that for thousands of years people have made the observation that there are certain kinds of extreme depressive states that seem to… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Every seventeen minutes in America, someone commits suicide. Mostly, I have been impressed by how little value our society puts on saving the lives… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Mother, who has an absolute belief that it is not the cards that one is dealt in life, it is how one plays them,… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“I decided early in graduate school that I needed to do something about my moods. It quickly came down to a choice between seeing… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
When I'm talking about depression, I'm talking about the more severe forms of depression, and I think that conceptualising as a form of grief… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
An ardent temperament makes one very vulnerable to dreamkillers. — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
the intensity, glory, and absolute assuredness if my mind's flight made it very difficult for me to believe once i was better, that the… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
I wish I could explain it so someone could understand it. I'm afraid it's something I can't put into words. There's just this heavy,… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Moods are such an essential part of the substance of life, of one's notion of oneself, that even psychotic extremes in mood and behavior… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
