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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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Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Prolonged endurance tames the bold.
— Lord Byron
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I look at improvising as a prolonged game of chess. There's an opening gambit with your pawn in a complex game I…
— Steve Carell
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If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in…
— Winston Churchill
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Discovery should come as an adventure rather than as the result of a logical process of thought. Sharp, prolonged thinking is necessary…
— Theobald Smith
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There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare.
— Sun Tzu
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Whereas a prolonged life is not necessarily better, a prolonged death is necessarily worse.
— Seneca the Younger
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When your weapons are dulled and ardour damped, your strength exhausted and treasure spent, neighboring rulers will take advantage of your distress…
— Sun Tzu
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What is essential in war is victory, not prolonged operations.
— Sun Tzu
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The atmosphere of the home is prolonged in the school, where the students soon discover thatin order to achieve some satisfaction they…
— Paulo Freire
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Prayer ought to be short and pure, unless it be prolonged by the inspiration of Divine grace.
— Benedict of Nursia
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War's very object is victory, not prolonged indecision. In war there is no substitute for victory.
— Douglas MacArthur
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