"The quickness and flexibility of a well mind,……" — Kay Redfield Jamison
"The quickness and flexibility of a well mind, a belief or hope that things will eventually sort themselves out-these are the resources lost to a person when the brain is ill."
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104 Quotes by Kay Redfield Jamison
Kay Redfield Jamison has 104 quotes on this site.
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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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There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness and terror involved in this kind of madness... It will never…
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Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
— Richard Bach
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And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief…
— Isaac Asimov
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Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
— Margaret Atwood
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I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as…
— Margaret Atwood
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No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel…
— Saint Augustine
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Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
— Saint Augustine
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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
— Marcus Aurelius
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It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be,…
— Jane Austen
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Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what…
— Richard Bach
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The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the…
— Richard Bach
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