Kay Redfield Jamison citations (31 citations)

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Kay Redfield Jamison: Citations en anglais

“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?”

Source: Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

“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”

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

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

“Which of my feelings are real? Which of the me's is me? The wild, impulsive, chaotic, energetic, and crazy one? Or the shy, withdrawn, desperate, suicidal, doomed, and tired one? Probably a bit of both, hopefully much that is neither.”

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

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

“Suicide is not a blot on anyone’s name; it is a tragedy”

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Source: Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide

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

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

“But money spent while manic doesn't fit into the Internal Revenue Service concept of medical expense or business loss. So after mania, when most depressed, you're given excellent reason to be even more so.”

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

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

“We all move uneasily within our restraints.”

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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.”

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

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

“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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Source: Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide

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

“Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.”

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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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Source: Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide

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

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

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

“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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“I had a terrible temper, after all, and though it rarely erupted, when it did it frightened me and anyone near its epicenter. It was the only crack, but a disturbing one, in the otherwise vacuum-sealed casing of my behavior.”

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

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

“Suicide Note:
The calm,
Cool face of the river
Asked me for a kiss.
-Langston Hughes”

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Source: Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide

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

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Source: Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide

“I realized that it was not that I didn’t want to go on without him. I did. It was just that I didn’t know why I wanted to go on”

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Source: Nothing Was the Same

“Time will pass; these mood will pass; and I will, eventually, be myself again. But then, at some unknown time, the electrifying carnival will come back into my mind.”

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

“I had been simply treating water, settling on surviving and avoiding pain rather than being actively involved in seeking out life.”

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

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

“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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Source: Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide

“You're frightened, and you're frightening, and you're 'not at all like yourself but you will be soon,' but you know you won't.”

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

“Moods are such an essential part of the substance of life, of one's notion of oneself, that even psychotic extremes in mood and behavior somehow can be seen as temporary, even understandable, reactions to what life has dealt.”

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

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