And I want out of this life on drugs.
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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…if you feel everything intensely, ultimately you feel nothing at all.
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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’s being a grown up, which I never figured out how to do, scrubbing the tub, and remembering to eat and shampoo my hair. It’s the basics: I can write a whole book, but I cannot handle the basics.
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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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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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Because trying to see all sides, such an instinct is particularly Jewish.
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Into every sunny life a little rain must fall.
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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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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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In a strange way, I had fallen in love with my depression.
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My life’s actually been quite dull; it’s not all that glamorous.
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That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.
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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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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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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.
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