Elizabeth Wurtzel Quotes about Fighting

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

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

Depression, Fighting, Sinking

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

Israel fights back, which is very much at odds with the Jewish instinct to discuss and deconstruct everything until action itself seems senseless.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Fighting, Israel, Odds

"Standing against a tide of hatred" by Elizabeth Wurtzel, www.theguardian.com. January 16, 2009.

Doing nothing is opting for the sweetness of stillness...Instead of fighting with that which you cannot control, you might as well just see it through.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Fighting, Might, Doing Nothing

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.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Depression, Ambition, Fighting

I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn't one I'll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it's worth it.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Happiness, Depression, Fighting

Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt