"But, with time, one has encountered many of……" — Kay Redfield Jamison
"But, with time, one has encountered many of the monsters, and one is increasingly less terrified of those still to be met."
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104 Quotes by Kay Redfield Jamison
Kay Redfield Jamison has 104 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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…
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But then back on lithium and rotating on the planet at the same pace as everyone else, you find your…
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It was as if my father had given me, by way of temperament, an impossibly wild, dark, and unbroken horse.…
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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…
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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…
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Every seventeen minutes in America, someone commits suicide. Mostly, I have been impressed by how little value our society puts…
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I am by temperament an optimist, and I thought from the beginning that there was much to be written about…
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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…
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Others would say to me, 'It is only temporary, it will pass, you will get over it,' but of course…
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Manic depression distorts moods and thoughts, incites dreadful behaviors, destroys the basis of rational thought, and too often erodes the…
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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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When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.
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During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school.
— Lionel Blue
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I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to…
— Georg Brandes
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As his vice president for eight years, I learned more from Ronald Reagan than from anyone I encountered in all…
— George H. W. Bush
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I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more.…
— Susan B. Anthony
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Universal appreciation of art... belongs to those countries and those ages which are not, or were not, ruled by materialism.…
— Walter J. Phillips
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I have encountered a few 'creationists' and because they were usually nice, intelligent people, I have been unable to decide…
— Arthur C. Clarke
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Mind dissolves only when you don't choose. And when there is no mind, you are for the first time in…
— Rajneesh
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The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found…
— Gustave Courbet
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He exhibits the most extraordinary capacity for middle age that I've ever encountered in a young man of twenty-four.
— Unknown Author
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There are few positions in life in which difficulties have not to be encountered. These difficulties are, however, our best…
— Edwin Paxton Hood
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Although contemporary advertising is relatively young, it already has a considerable tradition. Each new ad is encountered against a background…
— Guy Cook
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