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. Elizabeth Wurtzel More Quotes by Elizabeth Wurtzel More Quotes From Elizabeth Wurtzel There is a classic moment in ‘The Sun Also Rises’ when someone asks Mike Campbell how he went bankrupt, and all he can say in response is, “Gradually and then suddenly.” When someone asks how I lost my mind, that’s all I can say too. Elizabeth Wurtzel classic mind sun I wasn't just the madwoman in the attic--I was the attic itself. The past was all over me, all under me, all inside me. Elizabeth Wurtzel prozac-nation vivid-memories past I start to get the feeling that something is really wrong. Elizabeth Wurtzel prozac-nation prozac feelings I am crying over the elusive nature of love. Elizabeth Wurtzel elusive cry For all of my life I have needed more. Elizabeth Wurtzel needed 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 prozac-nation depression might As someone very sagely said during the parricide trials of the Menendez Brothers: anytime your kids kill you, you are at least partly to blame. Elizabeth Wurtzel parenting brother kids A deeply true, wholly aching account of the dangerous way we live now--LOVE JUNKIE is great fun to read, and finally fully redemptive. Rachel Resnick brings a light, delightful touch to a hard subject, and creates a great, relatable, readable memoir. Elizabeth Wurtzel light fun way Doing nothing is opting for the sweetness of stillness...Instead of fighting with that which you cannot control, you might as well just see it through. Elizabeth Wurtzel doing-nothing fighting might Sometimes I wish I could walk around with a HANDLE WITH CARE sign stuck to my forehead. Elizabeth Wurtzel care wish love Just as our parents quieted us when we were noisy by putting us in front of the television set, maybe we're now learning to quiet our own adult noise with Prozac. Elizabeth Wurtzel adults parent television Everything's plastic, we're all going to die sooner or later, so what does it matter. Elizabeth Wurtzel prozac-nation matter doe I believe women who are supported by men are prostitutes, that is that, and I am heartbroken to live through a time where Wall Street money means these women are not treated with due disdain. Elizabeth Wurtzel heartbroken wall believe If you take someone's thoughts and feelings away, bit by bit, consistantly, they then have nothing left except some gritty, gnawing, shitty little instinct, down there, somewhere, worming around in the gut, but so far down, so hidden, it's impossible to find. Elizabeth Wurtzel impossible feelings littles 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 fighting depression happiness But then I never had to worry about a crash landing because I never even took off. Elizabeth Wurtzel landing crash worry Years of depression have robbed me of that—well, that give, that elasticity that everyone else calls perspective. Elizabeth Wurtzel perspective giving years ...All I want to talk about is the oncoming apocalypse in my brain. Elizabeth Wurtzel apocalypse want brain Because trying to see all sides, such an instinct is particularly Jewish. Elizabeth Wurtzel instinct sides trying The most likely person to kill you is your wife, but that probably won't happen. What probably will happen is a million little betrayals of varying degrees of pain, brought on by people you love, the only ones who really can hurt you. Elizabeth Wurtzel betrayal pain hurt
