Oh, Ma, you’re looking at all the trees, and I’m not even in the forest.
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!
More Elizabeth Wurtzel Quotes
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Because trying to see all sides, such an instinct is particularly Jewish.
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In the meantime, I could withdraw to my room, could hide and sleep as if I were dead
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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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But 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.
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I 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.
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In a strange way, I had fallen in love with my depression.
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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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Am 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.
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…if you feel everything intensely, ultimately you feel nothing at all.
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That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.
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It was just very interesting to me that certain types of women inspire people’s imagination, and all of them were very difficult women.
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It didn’t and doesn’t turn out well. There is no happy ending to the story of sorrow if you are born with a predilection for despair. The world is, after all, a coarse and brutal and cruel place. It’s only a matter of how long you can live with it.
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The 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.
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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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And I want out of this life on drugs.
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