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

- Elizabeth Wurtzel

You’re going to leave me, aren’t you? … You’ve had enough of me, haven’t you? You’re probably so tired of all this crying and all these moods, and I’…

- Elizabeth Wurtzel

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

- Elizabeth Wurtzel

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

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

- Elizabeth Wurtzel

That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, a…

- Elizabeth Wurtzel

I want to explain how exhausted I am. Even in my dreams. How I wake up tired. How I’m being drowned by some kind of black wave.

- Elizabeth Wurtzel

Depression is a lot like that: slowly, over the years, the data will accumulate in your heart and mind, a computer program for total negativity will …

- Elizabeth Wurtzel

homesickness is just a state of mind for me. i'm always missing someone or someplace or something, i'm always trying to get back to some imaginary so…

- Elizabeth Wurtzel