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Elizabeth Wurtzel Quotes

I’ve calmed down. Looking back, I was engaged more in dramas than I was in relationships. I’ve spent a lot of my life being in it for the plot, and I don’t do that anymore. I’m satisfied. I’m not competing with myself. I accomplished things I wanted to do, so everything I do now is because I want to, not because I’m trying to prove something Picture Quote #1

Pick a man, any man. Every guy I fall for becomes Jesus Christ within the first twenty four hours Picture Quote #1

Convention serves a purpose: It gives life meaning, and without it, one is in a constant existential crisis. If you don’t have the imposition of family to remind you of what is at stake, something else will Picture Quote #1

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 had it. I am so tired. I am twenty and I am already exhausted Picture Quote #1

Women who have it all should try having nothing: I have no husband, no children, no real estate, no stocks, no bonds, no investments, no 401(k), no CDs, no IRAs, no emergency fund - I don’t even have a savings account. It’s not that I have not planned for the future; I have not planned for the present Picture Quote #1

... if you feel everything intensely, ultimately you feel nothing at all Picture Quote #1

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If you are chronically down, it is a lifelong fight to keep from sinking Picture Quote #1

I need someone to shut off my brain, and turn on my heart Picture Quote #1

Mental illness is so much more complicated than any pill that any mortal could invent Picture Quote #1

I am fortunate to have been well paid for an almost pathological honesty Picture Quote #1

You know you’ve completely descended into madness when the matter of shampoo has ascended to philosophical heights Picture Quote #1

Taking a hypersensitive approach to life had come to seem so much more pure and honest then joining the ranks of the numb masses who could let it all slide by. What I stopped realizing was that if you feel everything intensely, ultimately you feel nothing at all. Everything registers at the same decibel Picture Quote #1

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A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight! Picture Quote #1

The biggest problem that women have is being ambivalent about their own power,... We should be comfortable with the idea of wielding power. We shouldn’t feel that it detracts from our femininity Picture Quote #1

If only my whole life could be words and music, if only everything else could slip away Picture Quote #1

Sometimes I think that I was forced to withdraw into depression because it was the only rightful protest I could throw in the face of a world that said it was alright for people to come and go as they please, that there were simply no real obligations left Picture Quote #1

That’s the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it’s impossible to ever see the end. The fog is like a cage without a key Picture Quote #1

I wonder if any of them can tell from just looking at me that all I am is the sum total of my pain, a raw woundedness so extreme that it might be terminal. It might be terminal velocity, the speed of the sound of a girl falling down to a place from where she can’t be retrieved. What if I am stuck down here for good? Picture Quote #1

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At heart, I have always been a coper, I’ve mostly been able to walk around with my wounds safely hidden, and I’ve always stored up my deep depressive episodes for the weeks off when there was time to have an abbreviated version of a complete breakdown. But in the end, I’d be able to get up and on with it, could always do what little must be done to scratch by Picture Quote #1

Whenever I talk to anyone I care about, I am always seeking approval. There is always a pleading lilt in my voice that demands love. Even the people I work with, the ones I am supposed to have a professional relationship with, all business, get pulled into my need. I can’t help it. I want to be adored Picture Quote #1

And then there are my friends, and they have their own lives. While they like to talk everything through, to analyze and hypothesize, what I really need, what I’m really looking for, is not something I can articulate. It’s nonverbal: I need love. I need the thing that happens when your brain shuts off and your heart turns on. And I know it’s around me somewhere, but I just can’t feel it Picture Quote #1

But then I never had to worry about a crash landing because I never even took off Picture Quote #1

After they had explored all the suns in the universe, and all the planets of all the suns, they realized there was no other life in the universe, and that they were alone. And they were very happy, because then they knew it was up to them to become all the things they had imagined they would find Picture Quote #1

Pain or not, I would most likely walk around in a suicidal reverie the rest of my life, never actually doing anything about it. Was there a psychological term for that? Was there a disease that involved an intense desire to die, but no will to go through with it? Couldn’t talk and thoughts of suicide be considered a whole malady of their own, a special subcategory of depression in which the loss of a will to live has not quite been displaced by a determination to die? Picture Quote #1

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I don’t know if I’m running because I’m scared or if I’m scared because I’m running Picture Quote #1

Homesickness is just a state of mind for me. I’m always missing someone or someplace or something, I’m always trying to get back to some imaginary somewhere. my life has been one long longing Picture Quote #1

Why does the rest of the world put up with the hypocrisy, the need to put a happy face on sorrow, the need to keep on keeping on?... I don’t know the answer, I know only that I can’t Picture Quote #1

Insanity is knowing that what you’re doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you just can’t stop it Picture Quote #1

I thought depression was the part of my character that made me worthwhile. I thought so little of myself, felt that I had such scant offerings to give to the world, that the one thing that justified my existence at all was my agony Picture Quote #1

I start to feel like I can’t maintain the facade any longer, that I may just start to show through. And I wish I knew what was wrong. Maybe something about how stupid my whole life is Picture Quote #1

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I’ve calmed down. Looking back, I was engaged more in dramas than I was in relationships. I’ve spent a lot of my life being in it for the plot, and I don’t do that anymore. I’m satisfied. I’m not competing with myself. I accomplished things I wanted to do, so everything I do now is because I want to, not because I’m trying to prove something. (Elizabeth Wurtzel Quotes) Pick a man, any man. Every guy I fall for becomes Jesus Christ within the first twenty four hours... (Elizabeth Wurtzel Quotes) Convention serves a purpose: It gives life meaning, and without it, one is in a constant existential crisis. If you don’t have the imposition of family to remind you of what is at stake, something else will. (Elizabeth Wurtzel Quotes) 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 had it. I am so tired. I am twenty and I am already exhausted. (Elizabeth Wurtzel Quotes) Women who have it all should try having nothing: I have no husband, no children, no real estate, no stocks, no bonds, no investments, no 401(k), no CDs, no IRAs, no emergency fund - I don’t even have a savings account. It’s not that I have not planned for the future; I have not planned for the present (Elizabeth Wurtzel Quotes) ... if you feel everything intensely, ultimately you feel nothing at all (Elizabeth Wurtzel Quotes) If you are chronically down, it is a lifelong fight to keep from sinking (Elizabeth Wurtzel Quotes) I need someone to shut off my brain, and turn on my heart (Elizabeth Wurtzel Quotes) Mental illness is so much more complicated than any pill that any mortal could invent (Elizabeth Wurtzel Quotes) I am fortunate to have been well paid for an almost pathological honesty (Elizabeth Wurtzel Quotes) You know you’ve completely descended into madness when the matter of shampoo has ascended to philosophical heights (Elizabeth Wurtzel Quotes) Taking a hypersensitive approach to life had come to seem so much more pure and honest then joining the ranks of the numb masses who could let it all slide by. What I stopped realizing was that if you feel everything intensely, ultimately you feel nothing at all. Everything registers at the same decibel (Elizabeth Wurtzel Quotes) A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight! (Elizabeth Wurtzel Quotes) The biggest problem that women have is being ambivalent about their own power,... We should be comfortable with the idea of wielding power. We shouldn’t feel that it detracts from our femininity (Elizabeth Wurtzel Quotes) If only my whole life could be words and music, if only everything else could slip away (Elizabeth Wurtzel Quotes) Sometimes I think that I was forced to withdraw into depression because it was the only rightful protest I could throw in the face of a world that said it was alright for people to come and go as they please, that there were simply no real obligations left (Elizabeth Wurtzel Quotes) That’s the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it’s impossible to ever see the end. The fog is like a cage without a key (Elizabeth Wurtzel Quotes) I wonder if any of them can tell from just looking at me that all I am is the sum total of my pain, a raw woundedness so extreme that it might be terminal. It might be terminal velocity, the speed of the sound of a girl falling down to a place from where she can’t be retrieved. What if I am stuck down here for good? (Elizabeth Wurtzel Quotes) At heart, I have always been a coper, I’ve mostly been able to walk around with my wounds safely hidden, and I’ve always stored up my deep depressive episodes for the weeks off when there was time to have an abbreviated version of a complete breakdown. But in the end, I’d be able to get up and on with it, could always do what little must be done to scratch by (Elizabeth Wurtzel Quotes) Whenever I talk to anyone I care about, I am always seeking approval. There is always a pleading lilt in my voice that demands love. Even the people I work with, the ones I am supposed to have a professional relationship with, all business, get pulled into my need. I can’t help it. I want to be adored (Elizabeth Wurtzel Quotes) And then there are my friends, and they have their own lives. While they like to talk everything through, to analyze and hypothesize, what I really need, what I’m really looking for, is not something I can articulate. It’s nonverbal: I need love. I need the thing that happens when your brain shuts off and your heart turns on. And I know it’s around me somewhere, but I just can’t feel it (Elizabeth Wurtzel Quotes) But then I never had to worry about a crash landing because I never even took off (Elizabeth Wurtzel Quotes) After they had explored all the suns in the universe, and all the planets of all the suns, they realized there was no other life in the universe, and that they were alone. And they were very happy, because then they knew it was up to them to become all the things they had imagined they would find (Elizabeth Wurtzel Quotes) Pain or not, I would most likely walk around in a suicidal reverie the rest of my life, never actually doing anything about it. Was there a psychological term for that? Was there a disease that involved an intense desire to die, but no will to go through with it? Couldn’t talk and thoughts of suicide be considered a whole malady of their own, a special subcategory of depression in which the loss of a will to live has not quite been displaced by a determination to die? (Elizabeth Wurtzel Quotes) I don’t know if I’m running because I’m scared or if I’m scared because I’m running (Elizabeth Wurtzel Quotes) Homesickness is just a state of mind for me. I’m always missing someone or someplace or something, I’m always trying to get back to some imaginary somewhere. my life has been one long longing (Elizabeth Wurtzel Quotes) Why does the rest of the world put up with the hypocrisy, the need to put a happy face on sorrow, the need to keep on keeping on?... I don’t know the answer, I know only that I can’t (Elizabeth Wurtzel Quotes) Insanity is knowing that what you’re doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you just can’t stop it (Elizabeth Wurtzel Quotes) I thought depression was the part of my character that made me worthwhile. I thought so little of myself, felt that I had such scant offerings to give to the world, that the one thing that justified my existence at all was my agony (Elizabeth Wurtzel Quotes) I start to feel like I can’t maintain the facade any longer, that I may just start to show through. And I wish I knew what was wrong. Maybe something about how stupid my whole life is (Elizabeth Wurtzel Quotes)

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