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Elizabeth Wurtzel Quotes

That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.

That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.

Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.55, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

...if you feel everything intensely, ultimately you feel nothing at all.

Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.302, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

If you are chronically down, it is a lifelong fight to keep from sinking

Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.317, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Divorce has taught us how to sleep with friends, sleep with enemies, and then act like it's all perfectly normal in the morning.

Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.79, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

How can you hide from what never goes away? --Heraclitus

Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.21, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

One of the terrible fallacies of contemporary psychotherapy is that if people would just say how they felt, a lot of problems could be solved.

Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.235, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt