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 build into your system, making life feel more and more hopeless.”

“Everything, everything, everything is going to be fine.”

“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, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end.”

“I feel like the sine wave of my life has been preserved in amber.”

“Sometimes it feels like we're all living in a Prozac nation. The United States of Depression.”

“Insanity is knowing that what you're doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you can't stop it.”

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

“Some people are just not meant to be in this world. It's just too much for them.”

“I start to think there really is no objectiveless world. That the world is made of secrets just aching to be revealed.”

“But I did not want to be a woman whose identity was defined by a man.”

“If you are bored and disgusted by politics and don't bother to vote, you are in effect voting for the entrenched Establishments of the two major parties.”

“I was the Courtney Love of my generation.”