Elizabeth Wurtzel Quotes - Page 4

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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 we're all so bummed out.

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  Depression, Gay, Rights

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.311, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

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  Love, Heart, Brain

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Pick a man, any man. Every guy I fall for becomes Jesus Christ within the first twenty-four hours of our relationship. I know that this happens, I see it happening, I even feel myself, sometimes, standing at some temporal crossroads, some distinct moment at which I can walk away and keep it from happening, but I never do. I grab at everything, I end up with nothing, and then I feel bereft. I mourn for the loss of something I never even had.

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  Jesus, Fall, Loss

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• Depression is about as close as you get to somewhere between dead and alive, and it's the worst.

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  Depression, Alive, Worst

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.299, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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.

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  Past, Going Away, Scar

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.131, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The voices in my head, which I used to think were just passing through, seem to have taken up residence.

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  Taken, Thinking, Voice

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Because trying to see all sides, such an instinct is particularly Jewish.

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  Trying, Sides, Instinct

  "Standing against a tide of hatred" by Elizabeth Wurtzel, www.theguardian.com. January 16, 2009.

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• I need someone to shut off my brain, and turn on my heart.

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  Heart, Brain, Needs

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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.

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  Passion, Imagination, People

  "Failure to Launch: When Beauty Fades". www.elle.com. May 20, 2009.

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• Jesus, I wondered, what do you do with pain so bad it has no redeeming value? It cannot even be alchemized into art, into words, into something you can chalk up to an interesting experience because the pain itself, its intensity, is so great that it has woven itself into your system so deeply that there is no way to objectify or push it outside or find its beauty within. That is the pain I’m feeling now. Its so bad, its useless. The only lesson I will ever derive from this pain is how bad pain can be.

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  Jesus, Art, Pain

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.231, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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.

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  Fighting, Might, Doing Nothing

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• I become one of those people who walks alone in the dark at night while others sleep or watch Mary Tyler Moore reruns or pull all-nighters to finish up some paper that's due first thing tomorrow. I always carry lots of stuff with me wherever I roam, always weighted down with books, with cassettes, with pens and paper, just in case I get the urge to sit down somewhere, and oh, I don't know, read something or write my masterpiece. I want all my important possessions, my worldly goods, with me at all times. I want to hold what little sense of home I have left with me always.

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  Book, Home, Writing

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.192, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• And what I thought, every time I thought about my father, every time his name came up, was quite simply: I WANT TO KILL YOU. I wanted to be more mature, more reasonable, I wanted to have a big, fat, forgiving heart that could contain all this rage and still find room for kind, beneficent love, but I didn't have it in me. I just didn't.

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  Father, Heart, Names

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.132, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• And she keeps saying, how can you do this to me? And i want to scream, what do you mean, how can I do this to you? Aren't we confusing our pronouns here? The question, really, is How could I do this to myself?

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  Mean, Confusing, Want

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.104, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

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  Jesus, Fall, Men

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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!

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  Jobs, Children, Energy

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.257, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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.

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  Heart, Brain, Needs

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The shortness of life, I keep saying, makes everything seem pointless when I think about the longness of death. When I look ahead, all I can see is my final demise. And they say, But maybe not for seventy or eighty years. And I say, Maybe you, but me, I'm already gone.

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  Thinking, Years, Finals

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.53, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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.

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  Ideas, Trying, Salt

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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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  Weather, Snow, Cyclones

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.153, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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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  Hurt, Morning, Mean

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.172, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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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  Agendas, Television, Politician

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• The moment in The Bell Jar when Esther Greenwood realizes after thirty days in the same black turtleneck that she never wants to wash her hair again, that the repeated necessity of the act is too much trouble, that she wants to do it once and be done with it, seems like the book's true epiphany. You know you've completely descended into madness when the matter of shampoo has ascended into philosophical heights.

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  Philosophical, Book, Hair

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• Oh, Ma, you're looking at all the trees, and I'm not even in the forest.

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  Tree, Forests

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.59, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• if only my whole life could be words and music, if only everything else could slip away.

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  Whole Life, Words And Music, Slips

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.154, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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