Kay Redfield Jamison Quotes

“St. Andrews provided a gentle forgetfulness over the preceding painful years of my life. It remains a haunting and lovely time to me, a marrow experience. For one who during her undergraduate years was trying to escape an inexplicable weariness and despair, St. Andrews was an amulet against all manner of longing and loss, a year of gravely held but joyous remembrances.”
― Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

“When both she and I had to deal with our respective demons, my sister saw the darkness as being within and part of herself, the family and the world. I, instead, saw it as a stranger; however lodged within my mind and soul the darkness became, it almost always seemed an outside force that was at war with my natural self.”
― Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

“God only knew what ran underneath the fierce self-discipline and emotional control that had come with my upbringing. But the cracks were there, I knew it, and they frightened me.”
― Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness