Elizabeth Wurtzel quotes - page 3

I need the thing that happens when your brain shuts off and your heart turns on. (Elizabeth Wurtzel)
I wanted so much to forget the past, but it wouldn't go away, it hung around like an open wound that refused to scar over, an open window that no amount of muscle could shut. View quote
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Because trying to see all sides, such an instinct is particularly Jewish. View quote
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It seemed like this was one big Prozac nation, one big mess of malaise. Perhaps the next time half a million people gather for a protest march on the White House green it will not be for abortion rights or gay liberation, but because were all so bummed out. View quote
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My imagination, my ability to understand the way love and people grow over time, how passion can surprise and renew, utterly failed me. View quote
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Into every sunny life a little rain must fall. View quote
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My God, I could raise a family of six children and hold down a full-time job with all the energy I expend on depression! View quote
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Woke up this morning afraid I was gonna live. View quote
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I was meant to date the captain of the football team, I was going to be on a romantic excursion every Saturday night, I was destined to be collecting corsages from every boy in town before prom, accepting such floral offerings like competing sacrifices to a Delphic goddess. View quote
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Mental illness is so much more complicated than any pill that any mortal could invent. View quote
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if only my whole life could be words and music, if only everything else could slip away. (Elizabeth Wurtzel)
Very early in my life it was already too late. View quote
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I am fortunate to have been well paid for an almost pathological honesty. View quote
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Judaism will be enmeshed in pride and shame for as long as it endures. But to endure as a country, Israel must shun both these tendencies. View quote
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Sometimes I wish I could walk around with a HANDLE WITH CARE sign stuck to my forehead. View quote
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Doing nothing is opting for the sweetness of stillness...Instead of fighting with that which you cannot control, you might as well just see it through. View quote
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I start to get the feeling that something is really wrong. View quote
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I am crying over the elusive nature of love. View quote
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For all of my life I have needed more. View quote
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I sit there in my bed staring at the wall, feeling happy, enjoying the way the wall looks, how pink and how white it is. Pink and white, as far as I'm concerned, have never looked quite so pink and white before. View quote
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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)
Ritalin abuse is a big issue in the US. View quote
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People who think that Sylvia Plath was a poor, sensitive poet are not getting that she had great amounts of ambition and anger that moved her along, or she wouldn't have been able to fight against that depression to produce such an incredible body of work by the age of thirty. View quote
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The shortness of life, I keep saying, makes everything seem pointless when I think about the longess of death. When I look ahead, all I can see is my final demise. And they say not for seventy or eighty years. And I say, Maybe you, but me, I'm already gone. View quote
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I come from a family of screamers. If they are trying to express any emotion or idea beyond pass the salt, it comes in shrieks. View quote
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