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 ...… — 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… — 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 hated him for not being depressed. He seemed a fool-- everyone who didn't feel like me was a fool. I alone… — 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
“At long last, I had found myself vulnerable to the worst of New York City, because at 44 my life was not… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
“I intend to scream, shout, race the engine, call when I feel like it, throw tantrums in Bloomingdale's if I feel like… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
In life, single women are the most vulnerable adults. In movies, they are given imaginary power. — 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
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
I know I can do so much more than this, I know that I could be a life force, could love with… — 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
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
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've calmed down. Looking back, I was engaged more in dramas than I was in relationships. I've spent a lot of my… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
“The shortness of life, I keep saying, makes everything seem pointless when I think about the longness of death.” — 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
“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
Taking a hypersensitive approach to life had come to seem so much more pure and honest then joining the ranks of the… — 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