--- title: "7 Tired Quotes By Elizabeth Wurtzel" description: "7 Tired quotes by Elizabeth Wurtzel. Plus more from Elizabeth Wurtzel and more Tired sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d0c/elizabeth-wurtzel-1275_black_i-want-to-explain-how-exhausted-i-am-eve_58577.jpg" --- > [I want to explain how exhausted I am. Even in my dreams. How I wake up tired. How I’m being drowned by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-wurtzel/i-want-to-explain-how-exhausted-i-am-even-in-my-dreams-how-i-wake-up/) [Elizabeth Wurtzel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-wurtzel/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d0c/elizabeth-wurtzel-1275_black_i-want-to-explain-how-exhausted-i-am-eve_58577.jpg) > [“I start to feel like I can't maintain the facade any longer, that I may just start to show through. And I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-wurtzel/i-start-to-feel-like-i-can-t-maintain-the-facade-any-longer-that-i/) [Elizabeth Wurtzel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-wurtzel/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8c7/elizabeth-wurtzel-1275_exhausted_i-start-to-feel-like-i-can-t-maintain-th_550950.jpg) > [“Why does the rest of the world put up with the hypocrisy, the need to put a happy face on sorrow, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-wurtzel/why-does-the-rest-of-the-world-put-up-with-the-hypocrisy-the-need-to/) [Elizabeth Wurtzel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-wurtzel/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0ce/elizabeth-wurtzel-1275_exhausted_why-does-the-rest-of-the-world-put-up-wi_653460.png) > [I don't want any more vicissitudes, I don't want any more of this try, try again stuff. I just want out. I've…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-wurtzel/i-don-t-want-any-more-vicissitudes-i-don-t-want-any-more-of-this-try/) [Elizabeth Wurtzel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-wurtzel/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/59b/elizabeth-wurtzel-1275_again_i-don-t-want-any-more-vicissitudes-i-don_948989.png) > [You’re going to leave me, aren’t you? … You’ve had enough of me, haven’t you? You’re probably so tired of all this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-wurtzel/you-re-going-to-leave-me-aren-t-you-you-ve-had-enough-of-me-haven-t/) [Elizabeth Wurtzel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-wurtzel/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6e5/elizabeth-wurtzel-1275_broken-heart_you-re-going-to-leave-me-aren-t-you-you_2217029.png) > [“I don't want any more of this try, try again stuff. I just want out. I’ve had it. I am so tired.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-wurtzel/i-don-t-want-any-more-of-this-try-try-again-stuff-i-just-want-out-i/) [Elizabeth Wurtzel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-wurtzel/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fc0/elizabeth-wurtzel-1275_depression_i-don-t-want-any-more-of-this-try-try-ag_3004497.png) > [I am so tired of the girl in the infirmary, I am so sick of the girl who cries wolf all the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-wurtzel/i-am-so-tired-of-the-girl-in-the-infirmary-i-am-so-sick-of-the-girl/) [Elizabeth Wurtzel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-wurtzel/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2cf/elizabeth-wurtzel-1275_alarms_i-am-so-tired-of-the-girl-in-the-infirma_3131347.png) ## Other authors on Tired ## More by Elizabeth Wurtzel > [Belief is a good thing in principle, but an annoying thing in human beings.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-wurtzel/belief-is-a-good-thing-in-principle-but-an-annoying-thing-in-human/) [Elizabeth Wurtzel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-wurtzel/) > [I myself am hell.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-wurtzel/i-myself-am-hell/) [Elizabeth Wurtzel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-wurtzel/) > [I can see that I imagine all kinds of rejection that never happens. I can see that I beg and plead for love that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-wurtzel/i-can-see-that-i-imagine-all-kinds-of-rejection-that-never-happens-i/) [Elizabeth Wurtzel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-wurtzel/) > [“...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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-wurtzel/if-you-ask-anyone-in-the-throes-of-depression-how-he-got-there-to-pin/) [Elizabeth Wurtzel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-wurtzel/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-wurtzel/i-want-to-explain-how-exhausted-i-am-even-in-my-dreams-how-i-wake-up/) [Elizabeth Wurtzel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-wurtzel/) > [Its the people you are close to, the ones who love you, the ones who have seen your heart, who have touched your soul…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-wurtzel/its-the-people-you-are-close-to-the-ones-who-love-you-the-ones-who/) [Elizabeth Wurtzel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-wurtzel/) > [if only my whole life could be words and music, if only everything else could slip away.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-wurtzel/if-only-my-whole-life-could-be-words-and-music-if-only-everything/) [Elizabeth Wurtzel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-wurtzel/) > [What I would do to be Alice climbing through the looking glass, taking one of those pills that makes you small ... so small.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-wurtzel/what-i-would-do-to-be-alice-climbing-through-the-looking-glass-taking/) [Elizabeth Wurtzel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-wurtzel/) > [Divorce has taught us how to sleep with friends, sleep with enemies, and then act like its all perfectly normal in the morning.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-wurtzel/divorce-has-taught-us-how-to-sleep-with-friends-sleep-with-enemies/) [Elizabeth Wurtzel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-wurtzel/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-wurtzel/just-as-our-parents-quieted-us-when-we-were-noisy-by-putting-us-in/) [Elizabeth Wurtzel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-wurtzel/) > [I am sick of the girl who cries 'wolf' all the time. Even though not one of those cries was ever a false alarm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-wurtzel/i-am-sick-of-the-girl-who-cries-wolf-all-the-time-even-though-not-one/) [Elizabeth Wurtzel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-wurtzel/) > [I'm lost in a loneliness that feels like forever ... like a solitude that never goes away.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-wurtzel/i-m-lost-in-a-loneliness-that-feels-like-forever-like-a-solitude-that/) [Elizabeth Wurtzel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-wurtzel/) > [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-…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-wurtzel/it-s-the-people-you-are-close-to-the-ones-who-love-you-theo-nes-who/) [Elizabeth Wurtzel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-wurtzel/) > [“When you do drugs, you count like a chemist: The numbers are wild, the formulas are easy. Then, when you try to get clean,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-wurtzel/when-you-do-drugs-you-count-like-a-chemist-the-numbers-are-wild-the/) [Elizabeth Wurtzel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-wurtzel/) > [Everything's plastic, we're all going to die sooner or later, so what does it matter.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-wurtzel/everything-s-plastic-we-re-all-going-to-die-sooner-or-later-so-what/) [Elizabeth Wurtzel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-wurtzel/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/tired/elizabeth-wurtzel/#itemlist", "name": "7 Tired Quotes By Elizabeth Wurtzel", "numberOfItems": 7, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I want to explain how exhausted I am. Even in my dreams. How I wake up tired. 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