Kay Redfield Jamison Quotes

Grief is the price we pay for love.

Grief, for me, is a moment-to-moment experience.

Grief jumps out at you when you're least expecting it.

A fundamental and unfortunate part of being alive is to suffer loss and to suffer grief.

When grief is deepest, words are fewest.

Grief is exhausting.

I don't mourn the dead. I mourn the living.

Grief is an emotion that's almost unplayable because you're in a separate emotional state; it's an inconsolable emotion.

I am not sad, but I am melancholic. When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

It is difficult to ever think about your loved one having suffered.

Serious loss brings you into one of the world's silent fraternities.

I know what it's like to lose.

I am tired of losing people.

In my own life, I have found grief to be enormously distorting, particularly if it's sudden or extreme in nature.

It must be sad to outlive aught we love.

If you no longer live, if you my beloved, my love, if you have died, all the leaves will fall in my breast, it will rain in my soul night and day, the snow will burn my heart, I shall walk with frost and fire and death and snow, my feet will want to walk to where you are sleeping, but I shall live

Nothing remained but loneliness and grief.

Seeing death is not as difficult as you might think. What's harder is to see people suffer. It's the people the dead left behind that get to you.

When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.

I was terribly wounded by my wife's death.

It's easier to identify with loss than love, because we have had so much more experience of it.

Here's a thing about the death of your mother, or anyone else you love: You can't anticipate how you'll feel afterward. People will tell you; a few may be close to right, none exactly right.

Widow. The word consumes itself.

My father's death, my move, and my frightening and difficult delivery created a tremendous amount of stress, pain, and sadness for me. I was practically devastated beyond recovery.