All Quotes
“Inside here it is sterile, it is drab, the light is artificial and too bright, but at least no one can touch me.”
-Prozac Nation, Elizabeth Wurtzel
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“Sometimes as I lie on the floor in the dark by the phone waiting for his call, I try to figure out what in the hell has gotten into me. Why am I so afraid of not hearing from him? It wouldn't be so bad. I could get some sleep for a change. I could get started on reading one of the tomes I'd schlepped down from Cambridge in preparation for my junior tutorial. I could try The Second Sex, I could plow through A Vindication of the Rights of Women, I could figure out how the hell to free myself from this enslavement to men. Of course, Simone de Beauvoir was basically a fool for Sartre, and I seem to recall learning that Mary Wollstonecraft was over her head for ? who was it? ? John Stuart Mill, I think. But Jack is no Jean-Paul. In fact if it weren't such a devastating thought, I could probably admit that Jack is no nothing. Pick a man, any man. Every guy I fall for becomes Jesus Christ within the first twenty-four hours of our relationship. I know that this happens, I see it happening, I even feel myself, sometimes, standing at some temporary crossroads, some distinct moment at which I can walk away ? just say no ? and keep it from happening, but I never do. I grab at everything, I end up with nothing, and then I feel bereft. I mourn for the loss of something I never even had. I am a sick, sick girl."”
-Prozac Nation, Elizabeth Wurtzel
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“Sometimes I wish I could walk around with a HANDLE WITH CARE sign stuck to my forehead. Sometimes I wish that there were a way to let people know that just because I live in a world without rules, and in a life that is lawless, doesn't mean that it doesn't hurt so bad the morning after. Sometimes I think that I was forced to withdraw into depression because it was the only rightful protest I could throw in the face of a world that said it was alright for people to come and go as they please, that there were simply no real obligations left.”
-Prozac Nation, Elizabeth Wurtzel
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“Sometimes, I get so consumed by depression that it is hard to believe that the whole world doesn't stop and suffer with me.”
-Prozac Nation, Elizabeth Wurtzel
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“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. The fog is like a cage without a key.”
-Prozac Nation, Elizabeth Wurtzel
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“This hatred overtook me, and I couldn't help myself. I wanted so much to forget the past, but it wouldn't go away, it hung around like an open wound that refused to scar over, an open window that no amount of muscle could shut.”
-Prozac Nation, Elizabeth Wurtzel
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“What do you do with pain so bad it has no redeeming value? It cannot even be alchemized into art, into words, into something you can chalk up to an interesting experience because the pain itself, its intensity, is so great that there is no way to objectify it or push it outside or find its beauty within. That is the pain I'm feeling now. It's so bad, it's useless. The only lesson I will ever derive from this pain is how bad pain can be.”
-Prozac Nation, Elizabeth Wurtzel
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“You don't even have to hate to have a perfectly miserable time.”
-Prozac Nation, Elizabeth Wurtzel
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“You know you've completely descended into madness when the matter of shampoo has ascended to philosophical heights.”
-Prozac Nation, Elizabeth Wurtzel
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“Life is like a box of chocolates. It's a cheap thoughtless perfunctory gift that nobody ever asks for. Unreturnable because all you ever get back is another box of chocolates, so you're stuck with unidentifiable whipped mint crap that you mindlessly wolf down when there's nothing left to eat. Sure, once in a while there's a peanut butter cup or an english toffee, but they're gone too fast and the taste is fleeting. So you end up with nothing but broken bits with hardened jelly and teeth shattering nuts. If you're desperate enough to eat that, all you have left is an empty box filled with useless brown paper wrappings.”
-The X-Files [television show]
Recommended by J.
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“'I love you,' she whispered.
'You hurt me,' I said.
'Same thing,' she retorted.
We've hardly been separated since.”
-The Story of Junk, Linda Yablonsky
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“There lies the beauty: I'm done with thinking. All it ever did was make me cry.”
-The Story of Junk, Linda Yablonsky
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“You are more in love with the desire, than the desired.”
-Nietzsche Wept: A Novel of Obsession, Irvin Yalom
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“Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint.”
-Letters to His Son, W. B. Yeats and Others, William Butler Yeats
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“Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.”
-The Second Coming, William Butler Years
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“Since first we saw the light,
And when we talked of growing up
Knew that we'd halved a soul
And fell the one in t'other's arms
That we might make it whole.”
-The Tower, William Butler Years
Recommended by Eleri.
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“Our whole world is nothing but a world of grief and misery, and its inhabitants are nothing but grieving and miserable people. The living beings on this earth are all destined for slaughter. The azure heaven and the round earth are no more than a great slaughter-yard, a great prison.”
-K'ang Yu-Wei
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“At times, things still seem so peripheral around me; when I turn to look at something, it jerks out of my line of sight. I can't always bring the world into focus. I know life is going on: Cars are being washed, people are going to work, houses are being built, other babies are being born, but it isn't always possible to reconcile myself to the reality of these happening. It's the strangest sensation of disconnection, as if I'm existing on a slightly separate plane from the rest of the world.”
-The Kind of Love that Saves You, Amy Yurk
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“The most beautiful makeup for a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.”
-Yves St. Laurent
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“Sometimes we think people are like lottery tickets, that they're there to make our most absurd dreams come true.”
-Shadow Of The Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafón
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“There are books of the same chemical composition as dynamite. The only difference is that a piece of dynamite explodes once, whereas a book explodes a thousand times.”
-A Soviet Heretic, Zamyatin
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“I have decided, it is fruitless. For I am no longer sure of anything concerning my existence. A philosopher is a dead poet and a dying theologian.”
-Madwand, Robert Zelzany
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“She soon says, 'You're my best friend, Ed.'
'I know.'
You can kill a man with those words.
No gun.
No bullets.
Just words and a girl.”
-I Am The Messenger, Markus Zusak
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