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Elizabeth Wurtzel

(1967–2020) Autobiographer United States

261 quotes in 1279 categories

Elizabeth Wurtzel’s words hit with unfiltered honesty, offering a window into her vivid inner world. This selection gathers over two hundred of her most resonant lines, letting her distinctive style speak for itself.

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Elizabeth Wurtzel was an autobiographer from the United States, best known for Prozac nation.

Quick Facts About Elizabeth Wurtzel

Born: July 31, 1967
Died: January 7, 2020
Nationality: United States
Profession: Autobiographer
Notable works: Prozac nation

About Elizabeth Wurtzel

Elizabeth Lee Wurtzel was an American writer, journalist, and lawyer known for the confessional memoir Prozac Nation, which she published at the age of 27. Her work often focused on chronicling her personal struggles with depression, addiction, career, and relationships. Wurtzel's work drove a boom in confessional writing and the personal memoir genre during the 1990s, and she was viewed as a voice of Generation X. In her later life, Wurtzel worked briefly as an attorney before her death from breast cancer.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Elizabeth Wurtzel

I am a hopeless, shameless flirt.

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Am

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I am not a nostalgic person.

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Am

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I myself am hell.

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Being young

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All I do is go to the movies.

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Cinema

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I am becoming a complete waste.

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Being young

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“I dont want to die, i dont want to live either.”

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Dont want

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I was sent away, and I never really found my way back home.

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Away

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The truth is that I'd always wanted to go to law school.

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Always

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“Okay so enough about me..now what do you think about me?”

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Okay

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I'm just a waste cause I'm already gone.

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Being young

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That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.

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Being sad

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You don't even have to hate to have a perfectly miserable time.

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Hate

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“You don't need an excuse to be depressed.”

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Depressed

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...if you feel everything intensely, ultimately you feel nothing at all.

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Feel

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I know if I were dead, I would be all spirit and no body, so I prey for my own death.

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Being young

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I'm lost in a loneliness that feels like forever ... like a solitude that never goes away.

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Being young

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Everyday that goes by, I feel myself becoming more and more invisible, getting covered over more thickly with darkness.

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Being young

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Divorce has taught us how to sleep with friends, sleep with enemies, and then act like it's all perfectly normal in the…

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Divorce

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Belief is a good thing in principle, but an annoying thing in human beings.

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Annoying

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How could I expose other people to my person, to this bane to the world? Am I one big mistake?

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Bane

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That's what it's like in my head all the time, constant snow, constant weather patterns of all sorts - blizzards, cyclones.

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Blizzard

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By never marrying, I ended up never divorcing, but I also failed to accumulate that brocade of civility and padlock of security…

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Accumulate

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homesickness is just a state of mind for me. i'm always missing someone or someplace or something, i'm always trying to get…

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Homesickness

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“...that I don't want to feel better in the morning, how that way of life is wearing me out, that what I…

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Feel better

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“One morning you wake up and are afraid you are going to live. In my case, I was not frightened in the…

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Afraid

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The men have piled up in my past, have fallen trenchantly through my life, like an avalanche that doesn't mean to kill…

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Alive

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I start to feel like I can't maintain the facade any longer, that I may just start to show through. And I…

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Facade

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Convention serves a purpose: It gives life meaning, and without it, one is in a constant existential crisis. If you don't have…

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Constant

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That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But…

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Depression

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“I'm the girl who is lost in space, the girl who is disappearing always, forever fading away and receding farther and farther…

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Depression

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“Tolstoy is frequently quoted as saying something about how all happy families are the same. but unhappy families are all unhappy in…

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Different ways

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“When she walks in that first Monday, of course I am awake - I am always up these days - I decide…

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Addiction

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“In a strange way, I had fallen in love with my depression. Dr. Sterling was right about that. I loved it because…

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Depression

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I had a really hard time after 9/11. I was basically living across the street from the World Trade Center, and a…

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Across

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“...if you ask anyone in the throes of depression how he got there, to pin down the turning point, he'll never know.…

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Depression

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That's the thing I want to make clear about depression: It's got nothing at all to do with life. In the course…

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Absence

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Women who have it all should try having nothing: I have no husband, no children, no real estate, no stocks, no bonds,…

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Account

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I start to get the feeling that something is really wrong.

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Feeling

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What do you do with pain so bad, that is has no redeeming value?

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Being young

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Into every sunny life a little rain must fall.

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Fall

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Elizabeth Wurtzel by topic

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