Kay Redfield Jamison Short Quotes

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An ardent temperament makes one very vulnerable to dreamkillers.

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The complexities of what we are given in life are vast and beyond comprehension.

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Love, like life, is much stranger and far more complicated than one is brought up to believe.

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Everyone has good cause for suicide, or at least it seems that way to those who search for it.

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One of the advantages of science is that one's work, ultimately, is either replicated or it is not.

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Nature is the first tutor. No one remains untouched or unschooled by the earth, seasons, and heavens.

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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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Chaos and intensity are no substitute for lasting love, nor are they necessarily an improvement on real life.

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If I can't feel, if I can't move, if I can't think, and I can't care, then what conceivable point is there in living?

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Suicide carries in its aftermath a level of confusion and devastation that is, for the most part, beyond description.

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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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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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I am tired of hiding, tired of misspent and knotted energies, tired of the hypocrisy, and tired of acting as though I have something to hide.

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Somehow, like so many people who get depressed, we felt our depressions were more complicated and existentially based than they actually were.

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Time does not heal, It makes a half-stitched scar That can be broken and again you feel Grief as total as in its first hour. -Elizabeth Jennings

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I am by temperament an optimist, and I thought from the beginning that there was much to be written about suicide that was strangely heartening.

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The assumption that rigidly rejecting words and phrases that have existed for centuries will have much impact on public attitudes is rather dubious.

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Conditions of thought, memory, and desire, persuaded by impulse and irrationality, are influenced as well by personal aesthetics and private meanings.

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One is what one is, and the dishonesty of hiding behind a degree, or a title, or any manner and collection of words, is still exactly that: dishonest.

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Mother, who has an absolute belief that it is not the cards that one is dealt in life, it is how one plays them, is, by far, the highest card I was dealt.

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There is always a part of my mind that is preparing for the worst, and another part of my mind that believes if I prepare enough for it, the worst won't happen.

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It took me far too long to realize that lost years and relationships cannot be recovered. That damage done to oneself and others cannot always be put right again.

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The awareness of the damage done by severe mental illness—to the individual himself and to others—and fears that it may return again play a decisive role in many suicides

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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 the resources lost to a person when the brain is ill.

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I look back over my shoulder and feel the presence of an intense young girl and then a volatile and disturbed young woman, both with high dreams and restless, romantic aspirations

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Children need the freedom and time to play. Play is not a luxury; the time spent engaged in it is not time that could be better spent in more formal educational pursuits. Play is a necessity.

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I was bitterly resentful, but somehow greatly relieved. And I respected him enormously for his clarity of thought, his obvious caring, and his unwillingness to equivocate in delivering bad news.

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