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Often, people want both to live and to die; ambivalence saturates the suicidal act.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
Pain that gets performed is still pain.
— Leslie Jamison
There are relatively few things that kill people that are young other than car accidents and suicide.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
Most people don't have the advantage of being able to evaluate their doctor in advance.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
Look to the living, love them, and hold on.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
I am by temperament an optimist, and I thought from the beginning that there was much to be written about suicide that was strangely heartening.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
I haven't had a family, but I don't think of that as a sacrifice: my dancers are my family.
— Judith Jamison
An ardent temperament makes one very vulnerable to dreamkillers.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
Like my father, I looked up rather more than I looked out.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
We all move uneasily within our restraints.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
let myself luxuriate in the decadence of being with Jamison.
— Olivia Chase
Every woman's pretty intimidating when you only look at her accomplishments.
— Rebecca H. Jamison
Freedom from one man is just another one.
— Leslie Jamison
I'm moved by contraries, by opposites, the strength that was my mother's eyes, the beauty of my father's hands.
— Judith Jamison
But, with time, one has encountered many of the monsters, and one is increasingly less terrified of those still to be met.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
I occasionally laugh and tell him that his imperturbability is worth three hundred milligrams of lithium a day to me, and it is probably true.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
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.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
Pain without cause is a pain we can't trust. We assume it's been chosen or fabricated.
— Leslie Jamison
The assumption that rigidly rejecting words and phrases that have existed for centuries will have much impact on public attitudes is rather dubious.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
I didn't enjoy what was happening but I enjoyed who I was while I was watching it. It offered evidence of my own inclination toward empathy.
— Leslie Jamison
Facts are aligned on shelves as well, necessarily chosen and arranged, assigned value by explanations neatly stuck where prices might have been.
— Leslie Jamison
We read to learn about the world.We write to change the world. — Lori Jamison Rog
Chaos and intensity are no substitute for lasting love, nor are they necessarily an improvement on real life.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
Empathy is cloaked in our actions - as in, we might be experiencing empathy but not realize it's empathy.
— Leslie Jamison
Redeeming subjects from cliche is its own pleasure and privilege.
— Leslie Jamison
Now I had no choice but to live in the broken world that my mind had forced upon me.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
Commonality doesn't inoculate against hurt.
— Leslie Jamison
You have to dance unencumbered. There's no other way to move. The idea of dance is freedom. It is not exclusiveness, it's inclusiveness.
— Judith Jamison
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
— Kay Redfield Jamison
Perhaps if we say it straight, we suspect, if we express our sentiments too excessively or too directly, we'll find we're nothing but banal.
— Leslie Jamison
With grief, you have reason to despair; it's a human thing.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
Exuberance is a gift of grace that allows us to move on, to seek, to love again.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
Dancers use their bodies in extraordinary ways, so we are chronically pre-arthritic, because of how we use our muscles and our bones.
— Judith Jamison
Imagining someone else's pain with too much surety can be as damaging as failing to imagine it.
— Leslie Jamison
I felt the naivete of a child in my dancing. I cherished that feeling. I had what I call a knowledgeable naivete, and it worked for me.
— Judith Jamison
He thought of women in terms of breasts, not minds, and it always seemed to irritate him that most women had both.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
The complexities of what we are given in life are vast and beyond comprehension.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
I'm in the habit of employing either sharks or mice.
— Erin Jamison
Conditions of thought, memory, and desire, persuaded by impulse and irrationality, are influenced as well by personal aesthetics and private meanings.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
One of the advantages of science is that one's work, ultimately, is either replicated or it is not.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
At the deepest level, we are all one.
— Terry And Linda Jamison
It was a tribute to my ability to present an image so at variance with what I felt that few noticed I was in any way different.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
Physically, emotionally, and spiritually I gave the ropes control, and then I understood what he meant. By giving up control, I became free.
— Olivia Cunning
I'll never be the size that has single digits and my thighs will always touch when I walk but I'm ok with that.
— Sugar Jamison
When bad things happened to other people, I imagined them happening to me. I didn't know if this was empathy or theft.
— Leslie Jamison
But it's exhausting to keep tabs on how much someone is feeling for you. It can make you forget that they feel too.
— Leslie Jamison
I want to know who you are as a person, and then I want you to develop as a whole human being.
— Judith Jamison
The word 'suffering' is not in my vocabulary.
— Judith Jamison
Snarky, sexy and so much fun. Sugar Jamison is sure to be a hit!.
— Kristan Higgins
The ancient dialogue between reason and the senses is almost always more interestingly and passionately resolved in favor of the senses.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
So many people dwell on negativity and I've survived by ignoring it: it dims your light and it's harder each time to turn the power up again.
— Judith Jamison
I am reminded of the importance of small kindnesses.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
I think people don't understand how intimately tied suicide is to mental illness, particularly to depressive illness and bipolar illness.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
There are a lot of studies that suggest a higher rate of creativity in bipolars than the general population.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
Suicide Note:The calm,
Cool face of the river
Asked me for a kiss.
-Langston Hughes — Kay Redfield Jamison
Everyone has good cause for suicide, or at least it seems that way to those who search for it. (74)
— Kay Redfield Jamison
I was a protege; by the age of 10, I was studying with ballet choreographer Anthony Tudor in a class of adults.
— Judith Jamison
Why do I hunger for significant barometers but find myself tethered to banality instead?
— Leslie Jamison
I'm happy not knowing. Most of the time (except when I'm a neurotic mess about uncertainty) I feel glad that the horizon is a mystery.
— Leslie Jamison
People come to see beauty, and I dance to give it to them.
— Judith Jamison
We have given sorrow many words, but a passion for life few.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
It never occurred to her to give up.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
Learning the edges or limits or sources of friction in empathy was one of the big issues for me.
— Leslie Jamison
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.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
Sometimes we're all trying to purge something. And what we're trying to purge resists our purging.
— Leslie Jamison
Empathy means realizing no trauma has discrete edges. Trauma bleeds.
— Leslie Jamison
Without science, there would be no such hope.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
A possible link between 'madness' and genius is one of the oldest and most persistent of cultural notions.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
Love, like life, is much stranger and far more complicated than one is brought up to believe.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
Feeling normal for any extended period of time raises hopes that turn out, almost invariably, to be writ on water.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
Violence, especially if you are a woman, is not something spoken about with ease.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
Th Chinese believe that before you can conquer a beast you first must make it beautiful.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
Grief comes and goes, but depression is unremitting.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
Learn the craft of knowing how to open your heart and to turn on your creativity. There's a light inside of you.
— Judith Jamison
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.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
We expect well-informed treatment for cancer or heart disease; it matters no less for depression.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
Irony is easier than hopeless silence but braver than flight.
— Leslie Jamison
Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
It is the history of our kindnesses that alone makes this world tolerable," wrote Robert Louis Stevenson. "If
— Kay Redfield Jamison
Mania is as bad as it gets. If not treated, it will become worse, more frequent, and harder to treat.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
One of things so bad about depression and bipolar disorder is that if you don't have prior awareness, you don't have any idea what hit you.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
Nothing good comes out of depression.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
If people all over the world, year after year, request that you do 'Revelations,' you do 'Revelations.'
— Judith Jamison
Maybe it's a generational thing, but I never wanted to be the best black dancer in the world. I just wanted to be the best.
— Judith Jamison
One you have danced, you always dance.
— Judith Jamison
Somehow, like so many people who get depressed, we felt our depressions were more complicated and existentially based than they actually were.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
How do we represent female pain without producing a culture in which this pain has been fetishized to the point of fantasy or imperative?
— Leslie Jamison
I've danced all over the world, and people are people. We cannot cut off from each other in life. In order to lead, you can't do that.
— Judith Jamison
I'd be lying if I wrote that I remember exactly what he said. I don't. Which is the sad half life of arguments - we usually remember our side better.
— Leslie Jamison
Empathy is a kind of care but it's not the only kind of care, and it's not always enough.
— Leslie Jamison
I've been in a competitive situation almost all my life. I've been having a competition with myself and trying to be the best I could be.
— Judith Jamison
Confidentiality is an ancient and well-warranted social value.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
This is the grand fiction of tourism, that bringing our bodies somewhere draws that place closer to us, or we to it. It's a quick fix of empathy.
— Leslie Jamison
Suicide is not a blot on anyone's name; it is a tragedy
— Kay Redfield Jamison