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
“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
People talk about the way disembodied spirits roam the world with no place to park themselves, but all I can think is… — 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
We are all born fallen, and there is nothing we can do to overcome the original sin! — 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
Sometimes it feels like we're all living in a Prozac nation. The United States of Depression. — 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
I thought depression was the part of my character that made me worthwhile. I thought so little of myself, felt that I… — 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
If you are chronically down, it is a lifelong fight to keep from sinking — 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
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
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
Years of depression have robbed me of that—well, that give, that elasticity that everyone else calls perspective. — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
People who think that Sylvia Plath was a poor, sensitive poet are not getting that she had great amounts of ambition and… — 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
