Prozac Nation Quotes - Page 2

• In my case, I was not frightened in the least bit at the thought that I might live because I was certain, quite certain, that I was already dead.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Depression, Might, Cases

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.30, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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 wish I knew what was wrong. Maybe something about how stupid my whole life is.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Life, Stupid, Wish

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You know you've completely descended into madness when the matter of shampoo has ascended to philosophical heights.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Philosophical, Height, Matter

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.267, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I have studiously tried to avoid ever using the word 'madness' to describe my condition. Now and again, the word slips out, but I hate it. 'Madness' is too glamorous a term to convey what happens to most people who are losing their minds. That word is too exciting, too literary, too interesting in its connotations, to convey the boredom, the slowness, the dreariness, the dampness of depression.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Depression, Hate, People

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.270, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Nothing in my life ever seemed to fade away or take its rightful place among the pantheon of experiences that constituted my eighteen years. It was all still with me, the storage space in my brain crammed with vivid memories, packed and piled like photographs and old dresses in my grandmother’s bureau. I wasn’t just the madwoman in the attic — I was the attic itself. The past was all over me, all under me, all inside me.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Memories, Grandmother, Past

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

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• Some friends don't understand this. They don't understand how desperate I am to have someone say, I love you and I support you just the way you are because you're wonderful just the way you are. They don't understand that I can't remember anyone ever saying that to me. I am so demanding and difficult for my friends because I want to crumble and fall apart before them so that they will love me even though I am no fun, lying in bed, crying all the time, not moving. Depression is all about If you loved me you would.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Depression, Fun, Lying

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• Ever since I was a little kid, I was competitive.

  Mariano Rivera

  Kids, Littles, Three Stooges

  Interview with George A. King III, nypost.com. September 21, 2011.

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