Elizabeth Wurtzel Quotes

• I am crying over the elusive nature of love.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

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• Happiness is a choice, you’ve got to work towards it.

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• I need the thing that happens when your brain shuts off and your heart turns on.

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

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• 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

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  Tags in World, Hypocrisy

• 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.

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  Tags in Human Being, Depression

• Sometimes I wish that there were a way to let people know that just because I live in a world without rules, and in a life that is lawless, doesn’t mean that it doesn’t hurt so bad the morning after.

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  Topics in Life

  Tags in People, World

• 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.

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  Tags in Self, Depression

• Ritalin abuse is a big issue in the US.

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  Tags in United States, Issue

• My life’s actually been quite dull; it’s not all that glamorous.

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  Topics in Life

• Like, in high school, I was a good student and got straight As. It was very strict and you couldn’t do well there unless you studied very hard, but every time there was any trouble, I was the first person they would be talking to.

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  Tags in School, Trouble, Person

• It’s like Samson and Delilah: watch your back, because trouble could be the person you’re sleeping with.

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  Tags in Person, Trouble

• It was just very interesting to me that certain types of women inspire people’s imagination, and all of them were very difficult women.

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  Tags in People, Women, Inspire, Imagination

• Insanity is knowing that what you’re doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you just can’t stop it.

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  Tags in Insanity

• In a strange way, I had fallen in love with my depression.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Self, Depression

• I’ll see Naomi Wolf on television periodically, I have nothing against her and what she says, but I’ll feel that she’s a politician, like she’s got an agenda to get across and that she doesn’t always say what’s really true or exactly what she feels.

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  Tags in Person, Television, Politician

• I’d really like to write a book about Timothy McVeigh, but it would only work if he cooperated.

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  Tags in Person, Book

• 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.

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  Topics in Love

  Tags in Self, Depression

• I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn’t one I’ll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it’s worth it.

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  Tags in Self, Depression, Happiness

• 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.

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  Tags in Self, Feeling

Elizabeth Wurtzel (28)

Birth:	31st July, 1967
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Journalist, Lawyer, Writer

About

Elizabeth Lee Wurtzel was born in New York City, USA. She is an American writer, lawyer, and journalist, known for publishing her best-selling memoir Prozac Nation, at the age of 26. She holds a BA in comparative literature from Harvard College and a JD from Yale Law School. She received the 1986 Rolling Stone College Journalism Award. While an undergraduate at Harvard College, she wrote for The Harvard Crimson and The Dallas Morning News. She writes regularly for The Wall Street Journal. She wrote an article in Elle magazine about societal pressures related to aging. She has written several books include: Prozac Nation, Bitch, More, Now, Again, The Secret of Life, The Bitch Rules, and Creatocracy.

 

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