"I realized that it was not that I……" — Kay Redfield Jamison
"I realized that it was not that I didn’t want to go on without him. I did. It was just that I didn’t know why I wanted to go on"
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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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Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
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Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just…
— Julie Burchill
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Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your…
— Saul Alinsky
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There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of…
— Aldous Huxley
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I bow in reverence before the emotions of every melted heart....The more intense the delight in their presence, the more…
— James Martineau
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Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which…
— William Ralph Inge
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It is true that many creative people fail to make mature personal relationships, and some are extremely isolated. It is…
— Anthony Storr
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It's better to keep grief inside. Grief inside works like bees or ants, building curious and perfect structures, complicating you.…
— Hilary Thayer Hamann
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Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.
— James Martineau
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All of our suffering in life is from saying we want one thing and doing another.
— Debbie Ford
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If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of…
— C.S. Lewis
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I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory…
— Abraham Lincoln
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