"The ancient dialogue between reason and the senses……" — Kay Redfield Jamison
"The ancient dialogue between reason and the senses is almost always more interestingly and passionately resolved in favor of the senses."
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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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Movies are not novels, and that's why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result…
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An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and…
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I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.
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Our parents deserve our honor and respect for giving us life itself. Beyond this they almost always made countless sacrifices…
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To a contrarian like me, constant advice not to do something almost always starts me quickly down the risky, unpopular…
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The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm…
— Albert Camus
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Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave.
— Emile M. Cioran
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I felt what I almost always feel when I am watching a ballgame: Just for those two or three hours,…
— Roger Angell
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Whether or not we have personality disturbances, whether or not we have the ability to overcome deficiencies of early environment,…
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Death is not the opposite of life, it is a part of life. A part we've not yet explored and…
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The course of a river is almost always disapproved of by the source.
— Jean Cocteau
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We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter.
— Luc de Clapiers
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