Kay Redfield Jamison Quotes

Everyone has good cause for suicide, or at least it seems that way to those who search for it. (74)

I am reminded of the importance of small kindnesses.

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

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.

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

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

An ardent temperament makes one very vulnerable to dreamkillers.

Without science, there would be no such hope.

God only knew what ran underneath the fierce self-discipline and emotional control that had come with my upbringing. But the cracks were there, I knew it, and they frightened me.