298 Quotes by Elizabeth Wurtzel

I wanted so much to forget the past, but it wouldn’t go away, it hung around like an open wound that refused to scar over, an open window that no amount of muscle could shut.

Its the people you are close to, the ones who love you, the ones who have seen your heart, who have touched your soul – to them, it is obvious that something is wrong or missing. Your heart and soul are missing. They feel it. It hurts them. It kills them.

Depression is a very narcissistic thing, it’s a self involvement that is so deep and intense that it means the sufferer cannot get out of her own head long enough to see what real good, what genuine loveliness, there is in the world around her.

Pick a man, any man. Every guy I fall for becomes Jesus Christ within the first twenty four hours...

I don’t much like my life, but for some dumb reason, I want to be alive, because sooner or later, I figure it will work out.

People who think that Sylvia Plath was a poor, sensitive poet are not getting that she had great amounts of ambition and anger that moved her along, or she wouldn’t have been able to fight against that depression to produce such an incredible body of work by the age of thirty.

Cancer is an ecosystem. It is a crime spree.

Insanity is knowing that what you’re doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you just can’t stop it.

Neurology takes a positive view toward god and prayer. And relinquishing, which is what god and prayer is about. It is always turning your will over to a higher power and letting the will of the world and not your extraordinary manipulations lead you to your desired result. I always say that, it is my constant prayer: god, if you are out there, watch over me and your will, not mine, be done. That is what will happen anyway, but I pray for release from the dreadful fight.