"Manic-depression distorts moods and thoughts, incites dreadful behaviors, destroys the basis of rational thought, and too often erodes the desire and will to live. It is an illness that is biological in its origins, yet one that feels psychological in the experience of it, an illness that is unique in conferring advantage and pleasure, yet one that brings in its wake almost unendurable suffering and, not infrequently, suicide."

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Source : Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.11, Pan Macmillan

Kay Redfield Jamison

#Suicide Quotes #Unique Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“If there's cheesecake in the house, I'll have some.”

Source : "Kelly: Live & Uncensored". Interview with Cortney Pellettieri, www.goodhousekeeping.com. February 7, 2012.
“Bluegrass is wonderful music. I'm glad I originated it.”
“I guess I'm breaking out a little of what's comfortable and easy.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Nobody black had learned anything from the Letter from the Birmingham Jail or from the I Have a Dream speech. That was a revelation of white people.”
“It has taken me all my life to understand it is not necessary to understand everything.”
“I think it's your mental attitude. So many of us start dreading age in high school and that's a waste of a lovely life. 'Oh... I'm 30, oh, I'm 40, oh, 50.' Make the most of it.”
“If you don't have jobs, it's hard to have other things like health and education.”
“Among the popular and representative systems of government I do not approve of the federal system: it is too perfect; and it requires virtues and political talents much superior to our own.”

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