Elizabeth Wurtzel Short Quotes

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That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.

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All I want to talk about is the oncoming apocalypse in my brain.

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Oh, Ma, you're looking at all the trees, and I'm not even in the forest.

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If you are chronically down, it is a lifelong fight to keep from sinking

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Belief is a good thing in principle, but an annoying thing in human beings.

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I need the thing that happens when your brain shuts off and your heart turns on.

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But then I never had to worry about a crash landing because I never even took off.

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In the meantime, I could withdraw to my room, could hide and sleep as if I were dead

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Everything's plastic, we're all going to die sooner or later, so what does it matter.

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Sometimes I wish I could walk around with a HANDLE WITH CARE sign stuck to my forehead.

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If only my whole life could be words and music, if only everything else could slip away.

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The voices in my head, which I used to think were just passing through, seem to have taken up residence.

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I was so scared to give up depression, fearing that somehow the worst part of me was actually all of me.

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Insanity is knowing that what you're doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you just can't stop it.

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Banned! My eyes light up, I think I see stars. Anything that has been banned by anyone must be something I'd like.

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Years of depression have robbed me of that—well, that give, that elasticity that everyone else calls perspective.

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I don't think it matters how many parents you've got, as long as those who are around make their presence a good one.

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My God, I could raise a family of six children and hold down a full-time job with all the energy I expend on depression!

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I wasn't just the madwoman in the attic—I was the attic itself. The past was all over me, all under me, all inside me.

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That's what it's like in my head all the time, constant snow, constant weather patterns of all sorts - blizzards, cyclones.

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Divorce has taught us how to sleep with friends, sleep with enemies, and then act like it's all perfectly normal in the morning.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Just as our parents quieted us when we were noisy by putting us in front of the television set, maybe we're now learning to quiet our own adult noise with Prozac.

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I wanted so much to forget the past, but it wouldn't go away, it hung around like an open wound that refused to scar over, an open window that no amount of muscle could shut.

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Why does the rest of the world put up with the hypocrisy, the need to put a happy face on sorrow, the need to keep on keeping on?... I don't know the answer, I know only that I can't.

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I start to feel like I can't maintain the facade any longer, that I may just start to show through. And I wish I knew what was wrong. Maybe something about how stupid my whole life is.

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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.

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Homesickness is just a state of mind for me. i'm always missing someone or someplace or something, i'm always trying to get back to some imaginary somewhere. my life has been one long longing.

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