Quotes by Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

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I need the thing that happens when your brain shuts off and your heart turns on. — Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation
In a strange way, I had fallen in love with my depression. Dr. Sterling was right about that. I loved it because I thoug — Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation
Many of the people who consented to talk about their private lives in front of millions of television viewers would say — Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation
At first, I was shocked that Diane could even suggest this family reunion [on television], and then I realized this is j — Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation
That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But — Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation
Some friends don't understand this. They don't understand how desperate I am to have someone say, I love you and I suppo — Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation
That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful. — Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation
I'm the girl who is lost in space, the girl who is disappearing always, forever fading away and receding farther and far — Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation
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 al — Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation
I feel like a defective model, like I came off the assembly line flat-out fucked and my parents should have taken me bac — Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation
If you are chronically down, it is a lifelong fight to keep from sinking — Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation
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 — Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation
Some catastrophic moments invite clarity, explode in split moments: You smash your hand through a windowpane and then th — Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation
Mental illness is so much more complicated than any pill that any mortal could invent — Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation
In the meantime, I could withdraw to my room, could hide and sleep as if I were dead — Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation
It is so hard to learn to put sadness in perspective so hard to understand that it is a feeling that comes in degrees, i — Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation
I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn't o — Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation
Sometimes it feels like we're all living in a Prozac nation. The United States of Depression. — Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation
In those pamphlets that they give at mental health centers where they list the ten or so symptoms that would indicate a — Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation
Everything's plastic, we're all going to die sooner or later, so what does it matter. — Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation