Depression Quotes by Elizabeth Wurtzel

I am becoming a complete waste.

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

I myself am hell.

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

My spirit seems to have already retreated tot he neatherworld.

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

I was sent away, and I never really found my way back home.

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

What do you do with pain so bad, that is has no redeeming value?

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

I'm just a waste cause I'm already gone.

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

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

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

Anytime your kids kill, you are at least partly to blame.

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

What if only you can catch yourself?

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

In a strange way, I had fallen in love with my depression.

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

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

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight!

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

I wish I could walk through a picture window and the sharp, broken shards slash me to ribbons so I would finally…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

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

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

Mental illness is so much more complicated than any pill that any mortal could invent

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

How could I expose other people to my person, to this bane to the world? Am I one big mistake?

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

Everyday that goes by, I feel myself becoming more and more invisible, getting covered over more thickly with darkness.

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

I'm lost in a loneliness that feels like forever ... like a solitude that never goes away.

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

“Madness is too glamorous a term to convey what happens to most people who are losing their minds. That word is too…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

Imagine only knowing that the sun is shining because you feel the ache of its awful heat and not because you know…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

It seemed like this was one big Prozac nation, one big mess of malaise. Perhaps the next time half a million people…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

“Hemingway has his classic moment in "The Sun Also Rises" when someone asks Mike Campbell how he went bankrupt. All he can…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

In a typical mental health catch-22, the alienating nature of depression tends to keep its sufferers from finding their way to the…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

What I would do to be Alice climbing through the looking glass, taking one of those pills that makes you small ...…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

“I don't want any more of this try, try again stuff. I just want out. I’ve had it. I am so tired.…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

Depression is a lot like that: slowly, over the years, the data will accumulate in your heart and mind, a computer program…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

“Some catastrophic moments invite clarity, explode in split moments: You smash your hand through a windowpane and then there is blood and…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

Pain or not, I would most likely walk around in a suicidal reverie the rest of my life, never actually doing anything…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

It is so hard to learn to put sadness in perspective so hard to understand that it is a feeling that comes…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

I guess I realize that I don't want to die. I don't want to live either, but-there really isn't anything in-between. Depression…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

Depression is all about if you loved me you would. As in, if you loved me you would stop doing your schoolwork,…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

But day after day of depression, the kind that doesn’t seem to merit carting me off to a hospital but allows me…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

“Forget about the scant hours in her brief life when Sylvia Plath was able to produce the works in Ariel. Forget about…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

When I look ahead, all I can see is my final demise.

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

I have never wanted out of my skin so badly …

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

I know if I were dead, I would be all spirit and no body, so I prey for my own death.

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

The shortness of life, makes everything seem pointless when I think about the longness of death.

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

I never imagined that the worst thing on earth is that sometimes wishes come true.

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

It's like I'm frozen, while the whole world is still going on around me.

— Elizabeth Wurtzel