Elizabeth Wurtzel Quotes


I feel like a defective model, like I came off the assembly line flat-out fucked and my parents should have taken me back for repairs before the warranty ran out. Elizabeth Wurtzel Depression 86
Age is a terrible avenger. The lessons of life give you so much to work with, but by the time you've got all this great wisdom, you don't get to be young anymore. Elizabeth Wurtzel Age 83
I thought depression was the part of my character that made me worthwhile. I thought so little of myself, felt that I had such scant offerings to give to the world, that the one thing that justified my existence at all was my agony. Elizabeth Wurtzel Uncategorized 83
Its nonverbal I need love. I need the thing that happens when your brain shuts off and your heart turns on. And I know its around me somewhere but I just cant feel it. Elizabeth Wurtzel Memoir 83
It was just very interesting to me that certain types of women inspire people's imagination, and all of them were very difficult women. Elizabeth Wurtzel Imagination 79
My imagination, my ability to understand the way love and people grow over time, how passion can surprise and renew, utterly failed me. Elizabeth Wurtzel Imagination 73
In life, single women are the most vulnerable adults. In movies, they are given imaginary power. Elizabeth Wurtzel Women 70
All I do is go to the movies. Elizabeth Wurtzel Movies 62
In a strange way, I had fallen in love with my depression. Elizabeth Wurtzel Uncategorized 52
I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn't one I'll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it's worth it. Elizabeth Wurtzel Happy 44
Everythings plastic were all going to die sooner or later so what does it matter. Elizabeth Wurtzel Depression 43
If you are chronically down it is a lifelong fight to keep from sinking Elizabeth Wurtzel Depression 41
I start to get the feeling that something is really wrong. Elizabeth Wurtzel Depression 39
Mental illness is so much more complicated than any pill that any mortal could invent Elizabeth Wurtzel Depression 39
And she keeps saying how can you do this to me And i want to scream what do you mean how can I do this to you Arent we confusing our pronouns here The question really is How could I do this to myself Elizabeth Wurtzel Depression 38
Madness is too glamorous a term to convey what happens to most people who are losing their minds. That word is too excitingtoo literary too interesting in its connotations to convey the boredom the slowness the dreariness the dampness of depression. Elizabeth Wurtzel Madness 38
Feminism is a good venue for getting yourself across as much as for getting your point across. Elizabeth Wurtzel Uncategorized 37
In the meantime I could withdraw to my room could hide and sleep as if I were dead Elizabeth Wurtzel Memories 36
Ritalin abuse is a big issue in the US. Elizabeth Wurtzel Uncategorized 36
That is all I want in life for this pain to seem purposeful. Elizabeth Wurtzel Depression 34
Sometimes it feels like were all living in a Prozac nation. The United States of Depression. Elizabeth Wurtzel Depression 34
One of the terrible fallacies of contemporary psychotherapy is that if people would just say how they felt a lot of problems could be solved. Elizabeth Wurtzel Depression 34
My life's actually been quite dull; it's not all that glamorous. Elizabeth Wurtzel Life 33
Into every sunny life a little rain must fall. Elizabeth Wurtzel Memoir 33
I dont want any more of this try try again stuff. I just want out. Ive had it. I am so tired. I am twenty and I am already exhausted. Elizabeth Wurtzel Depression 32
In my case I was not frightened in the least bit at the thought that I might live because I was certain quite certain that I was already dead. Elizabeth Wurtzel Depression 32
Embrace fanaticism. Harness joie de vivre by pursuing insane interests consuming passions and constant sources of gratification that do not depend on the approval of others Elizabeth Wurtzel Joy 31
Woke up this morning afraid I was gonna live. Elizabeth Wurtzel Depression 30
...occasionally I wished I could walk through a picture window and have the sharp broken shards slash me to ribbons so I would finally look like I felt. Elizabeth Wurtzel Depression 30
When things get unbearable I wrap myself into a tight ball and shut my eyes. Every muscle in my body is tense. I open my eyes and Im still where I was when I closed them to escape. Nothings changed. Elizabeth Wurtzel Depression 29
I always carry lots of stuff with me wherever I roam, always weighted down with books, with cassettes, with pens and paper, just in case I get the urge to sit down somewhere, and oh, I don't know, read something or write my masterpiece. Elizabeth Wurtzel Uncategorized 29
Thats the thing about depression A human being can survive almost anything as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious and it compounds daily that its impossible to ever see the end. Elizabeth Wurtzel Depression 26
They have no idea what a bottomless pit of misery I am. Elizabeth Wurtzel Depression 25
As someone very sagely said during the parricide trials of the Menendez Brothers anytime your kids kill you you are at least partly to blame. Elizabeth Wurtzel Parenting 24

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