What do you do with pain so bad, that is has no redeeming value? — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
Mental illness is so much more complicated than any pill that any mortal could invent — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight! — 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
I never imagined that the worst thing on earth is that sometimes wishes come true. — 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 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
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 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 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
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 Copy Share Image
“Hemingway has his classic moment in "The Sun Also Rises" when someone asks Mike Campbell how he went bankrupt. All he can… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
It seemed like this was one big Prozac nation, one big mess of malaise. Perhaps the next time half a million people… — 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
“Madness is too glamorous a term to convey what happens to most people who are losing their minds. That word is too… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
Depression is all about if you loved me you would. As in, if you loved me you would stop doing your schoolwork,… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It is so hard to learn to put sadness in perspective so hard to understand that it is a feeling that comes… — 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
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
“Some catastrophic moments invite clarity, explode in split moments: You smash your hand through a windowpane and then there is blood and… — 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
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
Depression is about as close as you get to somewhere between dead and alive, and it's the worst. — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
If you are chronically down, it is a lifelong fight to keep from sinking — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
Iv invented a monster and now its overtaking me. This is what iv come to and this is what I will be… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
Belief is a good thing in principle, but an annoying thing in human beings. — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
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 Image
“...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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
if only my whole life could be words and music, if only everything else could slip away. — 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 ... so small.… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
I'm lost in a loneliness that feels like forever ... like a solitude that never goes away. — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
