…if you feel everything intensely, ultimately you feel nothing at all.
ELIZABETH WURTZEL…if you feel everything intensely, ultimately you feel nothing at all.
ELIZABETH WURTZELThe measure of mindfulness, the touchstone for sanity in this society, is our level of productivity, our attention to responsibility, our ability to plain and simple hold down a job.
ELIZABETH WURTZELAm I worried people will say I’m repeating myself? Sure. One thought I had was to publish it as a novel but eventually I just decided to do what I wanted to do.
ELIZABETH WURTZELAnd I want out of this life on drugs.
ELIZABETH WURTZELThat is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.
ELIZABETH WURTZELMy God, I could raise a family of six children and hold down a full-time job with all the energy I expend on depression!
ELIZABETH WURTZELI start to get the feeling that something is really wrong.
ELIZABETH WURTZELhomesickness 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 WURTZELBut just as a little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing, a little bit of energy, in the hands of someone hell-bent on suicide, is a very dangerous thing.
ELIZABETH WURTZELI sit there in my bed staring at the wall, feeling happy, enjoying the way the wall looks, how pink and how white it is. Pink and white, as far as I’m concerned, have never looked quite so pink and white before.
ELIZABETH WURTZELIn a strange way, I had fallen in love with my depression.
ELIZABETH WURTZELMy imagination, my ability to understand the way love and people grow over time, how passion can surprise and renew, utterly failed me.
ELIZABETH WURTZELBecause trying to see all sides, such an instinct is particularly Jewish.
ELIZABETH WURTZELI come from a family of screamers. If they are trying to express any emotion or idea beyond pass the salt, it comes in shrieks.
ELIZABETH WURTZELInto every sunny life a little rain must fall.
ELIZABETH WURTZELMy life’s actually been quite dull; it’s not all that glamorous.
ELIZABETH WURTZEL