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Kay Redfield Jamison has 105 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The quickness and flexibility of a well mind, a belief or hope that things will eventually sort themselves out-these are the resources…
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I think wanting to write is a fundamental sign of disease and discomfort. I don't think people who are comfortable want to…
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But then back on lithium and rotating on the planet at the same pace as everyone else, you find your credit is…
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It was as if my father had given me, by way of temperament, an impossibly wild, dark, and unbroken horse. It was…
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There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness, and terror involved in this kind of madness. When you're high it's tremendous.…
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When I am high I couldn't worry about money of I tried. So I don't. The money will come from from somewhere;…
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Every seventeen minutes in America, someone commits suicide. Mostly, I have been impressed by how little value our society puts on saving…
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I am by temperament an optimist, and I thought from the beginning that there was much to be written about suicide that…
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I have often asked myself whether, given the choice, I would choose to have manic-depressive illness. If lithium were not available to…
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Others would say to me, 'It is only temporary, it will pass, you will get over it,' but of course they had…
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Manic depression distorts moods and thoughts, incites dreadful behaviors, destroys the basis of rational thought, and too often erodes the desire and…
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Anyone who suggests that coming back from suicidal despair is a straightforward journey has never taken it.
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Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.
— Ambrose Bierce
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To my son Hugh, in return for the care and sorrow he has caused me all the days of his life, for…
— Unknown Author
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DAY, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent. This period is divided into two parts, the day proper and the night,…
— Ambrose Bierce
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To play billiards well is the sign of a misspent youth.
— Herbert Spencer
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For good undone, and gifts misspent, and resolutions vain
— Adam Lindsay Gordon
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Eventually, I sickened of people, myself included, who didn't think enough of themselves to make something of themselves- people who did only…
— Mark Twain
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I am tired of hiding, tired of misspent and knotted energies, tired of the hypocrisy, and tired of acting as though I…
— Kay Redfield Jamison
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Yesterday misspent can't be recall'd Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
— Abraham Verghese
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The day misspent, the love misplaced, has inside it the seed of redemption. Nothing is exempt from resurrection.
— Kay Ryan
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Don't bemoan your misspent life quite yet. Forgive me for flaunting my experience, but you have no conception of what a misspent…
— David Mitchell
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Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.
— Anita Brookner
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Somewhere in my callow, misspent youth, I was smart enough to marry my best friend.
— Rob Lowe
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