251 Quotes by Kay Redfield Jamison

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

I am reminded of the importance of small kindnesses.

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

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.

There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness and terror involved in this kind of madness... It will never end, for madness carves its own reality.

An ardent temperament makes one very vulnerable to dreamkillers.

Without science, there would be no such hope.

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

Exuberance is a gift of grace that allows us to move on, to seek, to love again.