Elizabeth Wurtzel цитаты

„That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.“

—  Elizabeth Wurtzel, книга 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 already exhausted.“

—  Elizabeth Wurtzel, книга Prozac Nation

„If you are chronically down, it is a lifelong fight to keep from sinking“

—  Elizabeth Wurtzel, книга Prozac Nation

„I was so scared to give up depression, fearing that somehow the worst part of me was actually all of me.“

—  Elizabeth Wurtzel, книга Prozac Nation

„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, книга Prozac Nation

„Mental illness is so much more complicated than any pill that any mortal could invent“

—  Elizabeth Wurtzel, книга Prozac Nation

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

—  Elizabeth Wurtzel, книга Prozac Nation

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

—  Elizabeth Wurtzel, книга Prozac Nation

„Sometimes I wish I could walk around with a HANDLE WITH CARE sign stuck to my forehead.“

—  Elizabeth Wurtzel, книга 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 one I'll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it's worth it.“

—  Elizabeth Wurtzel, книга Prozac Nation

„In the meantime, I could withdraw to my room, could hide and sleep as if I were dead“

—  Elizabeth Wurtzel, книга Prozac Nation

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

—  Elizabeth Wurtzel, книга Prozac Nation

„… occasionally I wished I could walk through a picture window and have the sharp, broken shards slash me to ribbons so I would finally look like I felt.“

—  Elizabeth Wurtzel

„… if you feel everything intensely, ultimately you feel nothing at all.“

—  Elizabeth Wurtzel, книга Prozac Nation

„Sometimes, I get so consumed by depression that it is hard to believe that the whole world doesn't stop and suffer with me.“

—  Elizabeth Wurtzel, книга Prozac Nation

„Sometimes it feels like we're all living in a Prozac nation. The United States of Depression.“

—  Elizabeth Wurtzel, книга Prozac Nation

„Everything's plastic, we're all going to die sooner or later, so what does it matter.“

—  Elizabeth Wurtzel, книга Prozac Nation

„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, книга Prozac Nation

„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, книга Prozac Nation