Elizabeth Wurtzel Quotes

People who are extremely inside their head, like he was, are caught in a neurosis that goes round and round. Then something will hook them and take them to their end and they can't control it.

I found popularity through self-destruction, and that can be quite addictive.

There have been times in my life that I've had a ton of vices, and my demons have run amok for years and years and years.

My experience is that when one is in psychosis, you're on a mission and nothing is going to stop you. At some level your brain is telling you you probably shouldn't be doing this, but you're on a mission.

What fascinates me about addiction and obsessive behavior is that people would choose an altered state of consciousness that's toxic and ostensibly destroys most aspects of your normal life, because for a brief moment you feel okay.

It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.

I come from a position where it seems like I have an addictive quality to everything in my life.

I wanted to end my life so bad and was in my car ready to go down that ramp into the water, and I did go part way, but I stopped. I went again and stopped. I then got out of the car and stood by the car a nervous wreck.

Anybody who does 90 takes has a problem.

I love stories about people who are smart enough to know that what they're doing is destroying them, but that knowing that doesn't help them.

Drugs will get you out of your own way, but we lived it, and that's dangerous. It can actually turn around on itself and steal your soul, and that's what happened.

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.

If you're an addict, it controls your life and your life becomes uncontrollable. It's boring and painful, filling your system with something that makes you stare at your shoes for six hours.

I think there are people that have very addictive personalities.

If you're not careful, you can fall into a destructive cycle of self-pity.

Regardless of what people ultimately think about Crazy As Hell, It's not the type of film that, ten minutes after seeing it, you're only focused on what you want to eat.

I've been insane from a very early age.

Anything that you can become obsessed with, and you do so much that you don't do the things you need to do with family, friends, school, job - that can be an addiction. And texting absolutely can qualify.

There is a quality of selfishness that is associated with an individual when they are in the depths of addiction.

I'm sort of like a maniac, and I can't get out of it.

I knew I couldn't solve it. Because I couldn't figure out what made her drink when things were going well.

I fill my life with a lot of 'busyness' in between jobs. Then I work very hard. Some of it is quite unhealthy. It's compulsive. I don't know what to do about it. I'm a little old to change.

Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.

I drink too much, I smoke too much, I take pills too much, I work too much, I girl around too much, I everything too much.

A guy who's actually self destructive is quite fun to play.