Love is rather impotent and pitiful: My father must have told me a million times how much he loved me, but that emotion - assuming it was even real - hardly had the strength to counter the many other acts of wrong he committed against me. Contrary to romance novels and the love-conquers-all mentality that even those of us who grow up in an era of divorce are - in response to some atavistic instinct - still raised to believe, love is always a product and a victim of circumstances. It is fragile and small.
How can you hide from what never goes away? --Heraclitus - Elizabeth Wurtzel
How can you hide from what never goes away? --Heraclitus
- 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
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…
...if you feel everything intensely, ultimately you feel nothing at all. - Elizabeth Wurtzel
...if you feel everything intensely, ultimately you feel nothing at all.
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
Divorce has taught us how to sleep with friends, sleep with enemies, and then act like it's all perfectly normal in the morning.
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
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’…
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
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 …
That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful. - Elizabeth Wurtzel
That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.
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
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…
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
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.
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