Kay Redfield Jamison: Quotes about love

Kay Redfield Jamison is American bipolar disorder researcher. Explore interesting quotes on love.
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“No amount of love can cure madness or unblacken one's dark moods. Love can help, it can make the pain more tolerable, but, always, one is beholden to medication that may or may not always work and may or may not be bearable”

Kay Redfield Jamison

Source: An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

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

Kay Redfield Jamison

Source: An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

“Love has, at its best, made the inherent sadness of life bearable, and its beauty manifest.”

Kay Redfield Jamison

Source: An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

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

Kay Redfield Jamison

Source: An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

“Look to the living, love them, and hold on.”

Kay Redfield Jamison

Source: Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide

“I have often asked myself whether, given the choice, I would choose to have manic-depressive illness. … Strangely enough, I think I would choose to have it. It's complicated. Depression is awful beyond words or sounds or images … So why would I want anything to do with this illness? Because I honestly believe that as a result of it I have felt more things, more deeply; had more experiences, more intensely; … worn death 'as close as dungarees', appreciated it - and life - more; seen the finest and most terrible in people … But, normal or manic, I have run faster, thought faster, and loved faster than most I know. And I think much of this is related to my illness - the intensity it gives to things”

Kay Redfield Jamison

An Unquiet Mind