"Love has, at its best, made the inherent……" — Kay Redfield Jamison
"Love has, at its best, made the inherent sadness of life bearable, and its beauty manifest."
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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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Heroes and scholars represent the opposite extremes... The scholar struggles for the benefit of all humanity, sometimes to reduce physical…
— Santiago Ramon y Cajal
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Our triumphs seem hollow unless we have friends to share them, and our failures are made bearable by their understanding.
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So often we try to make other people feel better by minimizing their pain, by telling them that it will…
— John Green
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Vice goes along way towards making life bearable. A little vice now and then is relished by the best of…
— Finley Peter Dunne
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Only friends will tell you the truths you need to hear to make your life bearable.
— Francine du Plessix Gray
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The good Lord in his ultimate wisdom gave us three things to make life bearable: hope, jokes, and dogs, but…
— Robyn Davidson
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The doctors may be mapping out the war games, but it is the nurses who make the conflict bearable.
— Jodi Picoult
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You can’t change the tale so that you turned left one day instead of right, or didn’t make the mistake…
— Gail Caldwell
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My mother could never have said she loved fall, but as she walked down the steps with her suitcase in…
— Dinaw Mengestu
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Yes, this is what I thought adulthood would be, a kind of long indian summer, a state of tranquility, of…
— John Banville
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The larger the percentage of the national income taken by taxes the greater the deterrent to private production and employment.…
— Henry Hazlitt
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The style is the man. Rather say the style is the way the man takes himself; and to be at…
— Robert Frost
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