Elizabeth Wurtzel Quotes

I've had my moments of feeling miserable in my life, as has everyone, but it's not often that you actually get the opportunity to indulge that feeling. Mostly when people are depressed or miserable, they have to snap out of it because it doesn't work. It doesn't suit day-to-day life.

To suffer some anxiety, some depression, some disappointment, even some failure is normal.

While each of us ... has depressed hours, none of us needs to be a depressed person.

I've had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.

Depression is close to me, but suicide hasn't been.

I've often felt depressed; everyone feels depressed.

Depression is something I've dealt with every day of my life.

I used to be good friends with my depression, saying oh I'm so depressed, or life is terrible.

Earlier in my life, I had a tendency toward depression.

I came close to depression, but when I started to feel I could really lose myself, I somehow escaped it.

Feeling anxious or depressed sometimes is part of what it means to be a person, and it might even be essential to success.

I can't deal with waking up and being sad.

I'm always dealing with this sadness. I don't want to be Morrissey or anything, but it is a thing I deal with it. Every day, when I wake up, I have to make a decision to fight this depression. That sounds horrible but I'm fine with it; it's who I am; it's my life. I try not to let it cripple me.

Depression might have chosen you, but you don't have to choose it back. Sometimes happiness comes with bootstraps, but so what? Pull 'em up. Choose joy.

I think having pointers and having guidance from mentors is very important, but it never actually embodies what you go through. And if something doesn't feel good, why do you repeat it? If you feel good bemoaning an audition for a week, go for it. But if you feel better bemoaning an audition that didn't go very well for 30 minutes because you believe in the craft and the process, then I suggest you do that. And that's what I suggest to myself. The alternative is way too painful and destructive.

Don't let yourself suffer needlessly, find a need to suffer.

My schedule for today lists a six-hour self-accusatory depression.

Action and care will in time wear down the strongest frame, but guilt and melancholy are poisons of quick dispatch.

You have to fight unhappiness like a dragon with fire and breathe.

I am profoundly in the D's - discouraged, depressed, disheartened, disgusted.

Why were you feeling low? Why does anyone? It creeps up on you from time to time.

The hardest thing you can do is smile when you are ill, in pain, or depressed. But this no-cost remedy is a necessary first half-step if you are to start on the road to recovery.

It’s amazing how much you’re missing in a depressive state until you start to come out on the other side. It’s like breathing again after being underwater for far too long.

It's just so hard to feel good, you know?

It's just so hard to feel good, you know?" I do know. And more than that, it's just so incredibly hard to feel. (54)