…if you feel everything intensely, ultimately you feel nothing at all.
ELIZABETH WURTZELBecause trying to see all sides, such an instinct is particularly Jewish.
More Elizabeth Wurtzel Quotes
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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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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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I start to get the feeling that something is really wrong.
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Because trying to see all sides, such an instinct is particularly Jewish.
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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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Into every sunny life a little rain must fall.
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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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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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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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Oh, Ma, you’re looking at all the trees, and I’m not even in the forest.
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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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In a strange way, I had fallen in love with my depression.
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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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