Peter D. Kramer famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Suicide is what the death certificate says when one dies of depression.
-- Peter D. Kramer

#Suicide #Bipolar #Certificates
When a psychiatrist writes a bestseller, he is then urged to write a book of advice. But I think our culture's awash in advice. The problem is we don't know whether it applies to us or whether we're an exception.
-- Peter D. Kramer

#Book #Writing #Thinking
I do not like to see men walk away from women in late middle age.
-- Peter D. Kramer

#Divorce #Men #Age
Part of the impetus for my writing is the pain I've seen my friends experience both in their marriage and in their dreams.
-- Peter D. Kramer

#Marriage #Dream #Pain
The success of Prozac says that today's high-tech capitalism values a very different temperament. Confidence, flexibility, quickness, and energy - the positive aspects of hyperthymia - are at a premium.
-- Peter D. Kramer

#Different #Culture #Today
What if Van Gogh had taken medication for his mental illness? Would the world have been deprived of a great artist?
-- Peter D. Kramer

#Taken #Artist #What If

But of course it's always gonna be Suicide, our fingerprints, ya know? You can't ever get rid of that.
But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.
Ah cher ami, how poor in invention men are! They are They always think one commits suicide for a reason. But it's quite possible to commit suicide for two reasons. No, that never occurs to them. So what's the good of dying intentionally, of sacrificing yourself to the idea you want people to have of you? Once you are dead, they will take advantage of it to attribute idiotic or vulgar motives to your action. Martyrs, cher ami, must choose between being forgotten, mocked, or made use of. As for being understood--never!
I don't know that I'm actually bipolar, but I definitely have huge mood swings, and I'm definitely passionate about the way I feel. I'm not really lukewarm one way or the other.
Melancholia is the beginning and a part of mania. The development of a mania is really a worsening of the disease (melancholia) rather than a change into another disease.
I contemplated suicide. My main concern was that I would not make the New York Times obituary page.
I had some experience in dealing with people who have mental illness and depression, but I didn't see the signs in myself. I couldn't ask for help because I didn't know I needed help.
A very common symptom in maniacal conditions is erotic excitement. This varies from mere coquetry, a somewhat extended application of the command "love one another", an undue attention to the opposite sex, and so forth, up to the extreme of salacity, when the mind is wholly occupied by the urgent sexual appetite, and all restraint is abandoned.
Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.
My stepmother sold my birth certificate and someone asked why I didn't buy it back. I don't know, really. I just couldn't bring myself to do it. It was mine. It cost me nothing and suddenly I had to buy it back.

Peter D. Kramer famous quotes

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