Elizabeth Wurtzel Quotes

All systems have failed me. In five minutes I'll be fine again for a while, but right now the inside of my head feels like Niagara Falls without the noise, just this mist and churning and no real sense of where earth ends and heaven begins.

When you commit your life to something and it doesn't work out, it is a tough place to be. Suicide can be the spiritual reprieve of a faithless person. I knew I could always just end it, and there was solace in that.

I don't want to be submerged by depression.

The only way I can cope is to lock myself in the bathroom and cry. Sometimes I sit there for hours and even eat my lunch sitting on the toilet floor. Anything to get peace and quiet.

Panic was the worst thing. When you panicked, you couldn't see possibilities. Then came despair.

The neurotic is always half-drowning in anxiety, and always being half-rescued.

My day passes between logic, whistling, going for walks, and being depressed. I wish to God that I were more intelligent and everything would finally become clear to me - or else that I needn't live much longer.

Forgive me. I can no longer live with my nerves.

Would you please tell me what you are thinking? Before I go mad?

If we lose our sanity ... We can but howl the lugubrious howl of idiots, the howl of the utterly lost howling their nowhereness.

I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.

That's the whole trouble. When you're feeling very depressed, you can't even think.

I could happily lie down and die sometimes.

Something really is wrong with me. And I don't know what it is.

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.

People respond differently to people who are grieving. They reach out. But depression is so very isolating. It's hard to explain to anyone who has never been depressed how isolating it is. Grief comes and goes, but depression is unremitting.

Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.

Depression is a feeling without a cause. Mourning has a cause.

I'm constantly tortured, and that's why I say happiness is irrelevant. Happiness is for children and yuppies.

I don't think I can do this anymore.

Depression can seem worse than terminal cancer, because most cancer patients feel loved and they have hope and self-esteem.

I always said I was never gonna be an entertainer, Suicide was never supposed to be entertainment.

When you get to that point where you don't want to live, and you don't want to die, it's a desperate, horrible place to be. And I just hit my knees. And I had to use 'The Passion of the Christ' to heal my wounds.

I felt like I was the only person on the planet with this 'thing called depression', and I remember being frightened. I was knocked out and dopey, and I cried all of the time.