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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

Isn't it a blessing when the Lord shows us the path to who we really are? — Jamison Green

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

If I had a real horse," she said out loud to nobody, "I would not have to convince people that she should have a birthday party. — Day 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

No trauma has discrete edges. Trauma bleeds. Out of wounds and across boundaries. — Leslie 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

Dance is not endangered - it will always find a way to express itself. — Judith 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

The world is full of ways for people to dance. Concert dance doesn't get its due. — Judith 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

I love your stories. Tell me a story, Idgie. Go on, you old bee charmer. Tell me a good tall tale. Tell me the one about the lake. ~Ruth Jamison — Fannie Flagg

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