My life's actually been quite dull; it's not all that glamorous. — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
What do you do with pain so bad, that is has no redeeming value? — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
I wish I could walk through a picture window and the sharp, broken shards slash me to ribbons so I would finally… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
How could I expose other people to my person, to this bane to the world? Am I one big mistake? — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
Everyday that goes by, I feel myself becoming more and more invisible, getting covered over more thickly with darkness. — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
I'm lost in a loneliness that feels like forever ... like a solitude that never goes away. — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
I know if I were dead, I would be all spirit and no body, so I prey for my own death. — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
The shortness of life, makes everything seem pointless when I think about the longness of death. — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
I never imagined that the worst thing on earth is that sometimes wishes come true. — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
It's like I'm frozen, while the whole world is still going on around me. — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
Imagine only knowing that the sun is shining because you feel the ache of its awful heat and not because you know… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
The shortness of life, I keep saying, makes everything seem pointless when I think about the longness of death. When I look… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I wish there were a way to let people know that just because I live in a world without rules, and… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
What I would do to be Alice climbing through the looking glass, taking one of those pills that makes you small ...… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
“Age is a terrible avenger. The lessons of life you give so much to work with, but by the time you've got… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
I start to feel like I can't maintain the facade any longer, that I may just start to show through. And I… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
Convention serves a purpose: It gives life meaning, and without it, one is in a constant existential crisis. If you don't have… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
The men have piled up in my past, have fallen trenchantly through my life, like an avalanche that doesn't mean to kill… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
Depression is a lot like that: slowly, over the years, the data will accumulate in your heart and mind, a computer program… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
Pain or not, I would most likely walk around in a suicidal reverie the rest of my life, never actually doing anything… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
“Experience," which is just a euphemism for heartache and heartbreak, failed love and false promises, for every time you told yourself This… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
“But happiness is a difficult thing-it is, as Aristotle posited in The Nicomachean Ethics, an activity, is is about good social behavior,… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
“Forget about the scant hours in her brief life when Sylvia Plath was able to produce the works in Ariel. Forget about… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
That's the thing I want to make clear about depression: It's got nothing at all to do with life. In the course… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
“If I were another person, I go on, I wouldn’t want to deal with me, I don’t want to deal with me,… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
“I was, after the breakup, what you call a complete wreck. For the first time in my life, my pain had a… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
Belief is a good thing in principle, but an annoying thing in human beings. — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share
I can see that I imagine all kinds of rejection that never happens. I can see that I beg and plead for love that… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share
“...if you ask anyone in the throes of depression how he got there, to pin down the turning point, he'll never know. There is… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share
I want to explain how exhausted I am. Even in my dreams. How I wake up tired. How I’m being drowned by some kind… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share
Its the people you are close to, the ones who love you, the ones who have seen your heart, who have touched your soul… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share
if only my whole life could be words and music, if only everything else could slip away. — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share
What I would do to be Alice climbing through the looking glass, taking one of those pills that makes you small ... so small.… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share
Divorce has taught us how to sleep with friends, sleep with enemies, and then act like its all perfectly normal in the morning. — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share
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… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share
I am sick of the girl who cries 'wolf' all the time. Even though not one of those cries was ever a false alarm — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share
I'm lost in a loneliness that feels like forever ... like a solitude that never goes away. — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share
It's the people you are close to, the ones who love you, theo nes who have seen your heart, who have touched your soul-… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share
“When you do drugs, you count like a chemist: The numbers are wild, the formulas are easy. Then, when you try to get clean,… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share
Everything's plastic, we're all going to die sooner or later, so what does it matter. — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share
