Prozac Quotes - Page 2

• 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.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Depression, Keys, Sight

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.179, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I start to feel like I can't maintain the facade any longer, that I may just start to show through. And I wish I knew what was wrong. Maybe something about how stupid my whole life is.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Life, Stupid, Wish

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

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

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Depression, Pain, Being Sad

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.55, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Why does the rest of the world put up with the hypocrisy, the need to put a happy face on sorrow, the need to keep on keeping on?... I don't know the answer, I know only that I can't.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Fake People, Hypocrisy, Sorrow

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.269, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You know you've completely descended into madness when the matter of shampoo has ascended to philosophical heights.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Philosophical, Height, Matter

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.267, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Depression, United States, Sometimes

  "Prozac Nation". www.imdb.com. June 13, 2003.

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

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Love, Depression, Knowing

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.110, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I thought depression was the part of my character that made me worthwhile. I thought so little of myself, felt that I had such scant offerings to give to the world, that the one thing that justified my existence at all was my agony.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Depression, Character, Offering

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.302, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I'm the girl who is lost in space, the girl who is disappearing always, forever fading away and receding farther and farther into the background. Because with every day that goes by, I feel myself becoming more and more invisible

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Girl, Space, Forever

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.41, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• No one who had never been depressed like me could imagine that the pain could get so bad that death became a star to hitch up to, a fantasy of peace someday which seemed better than any life with all this noise in my head.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Death, Stars, Pain

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.85, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It's nonverbal: I need love. I need the thing that happens when your brain shuts off and your heart turns on. And I know it's around me somewhere, but I just can't feel it.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Heart, Brain, Needs

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There are peaks, there are valleys. But they're all kind of carved and smoothed out, and it feels like a low level of despair you live in. Where you're not getting any answers, but you're living OK. And you can smile at the office. You know? But it's a low level of despair. I was on Prozac for a long time. It may have helped me out of a jam for a little bit, but people stay on it forever. I had to get off at a certain point because I realized that, you know, everything's just OK.

  Jim Carrey

  Depression, Long, People

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• There's nothing wrong with you that a little Prozac and a polo mallet can't cure.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Depression, Witty

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• How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings

  Leonard Cohen

  Morning, Pills, Lasts

  Leonard Cohen (2008). “Book of Longing”, p.173, McClelland & Stewart

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• [Prozac] didn't seem to have any effect whatsoever on my melancholy, my dark vision, and everything else that I'd taken it for.

  Leonard Cohen

  Taken, Dark, Vision

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Just as our parents quieted us when we were noisy by putting us in front of the television set, maybe we're now learning to quiet our own adult noise with Prozac.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Parent, Adults, Television

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.313, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When you drink fluoridated water, you're drinking liquid Prozac. You drink enough of it, even though it's a small amount, drink it for decades and decades and what does Prozac do to you? It dumbs you down; it makes you docile.

  Jesse Ventura

  Drinking, Water, Doe

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• I've been on Prozac for 12 years and I'm off it now. I know what it feels like to be excited and sad again. I haven't felt like this in 12 years; I'm like a giddy little kid.

  Jonathan Davis

  Kids, Years, Littles

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• The Failure of Will theory is equally popular with people who are not depressed. Get out and take your mind off yourself, they say. You're too self-absorbed. This is just about the stupidest thing you can say to a depressed person, and it is said every day to depressed people all over this country. And if it isn't that, it's Shut up and take your Prozac.

  Chase Twichell

  Depression, Country, Depressed Person

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• "Poor Mrs. Benefer," Heather murmured. "Well, a nice cup of tea and she'll be right as rain.""Oh, puh-leeze, Heather. A nice cup of tea, indeed. A nice cup of tea, two Prozac, and sleep for a week, maybe..."

  Douglas Whiteway

  Nice, Rain, Sleep

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• Happiness in a tablet. This is our world. Prozac. Daxil. Xanax. Billions are spent to advertise such drugs. And billions are spent purchasing them. You don't even need a specific trauma, just 'general depression' is enough, or anxiety, as if sadness is as treatable as the common cold.

  Mitch Albom

  Xanax, Sadness, Our World

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• Because I'm not, in fact, depressed, Prozac makes me manic and numb - one of the reasons I slice my arm in the first place is that I'm coked to the gills on something utterly wrong for what I have.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Arms, Firsts, Facts

  Marya Hornbacher (2009). “Madness: A Bipolar Life”, p.6, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Antidepressants are the biggest fraud in the world. Number one, Prozac gives you a royal soft-on like you wouldn't believe, and number two you never know all the side effects. I look at the pharmaceutical companies as the drug barons, the psychopharmcologists as the mules and the patients as the victims. They're innocent because they think they're being cured.

  Robert Evans

  Believe, Thinking, Two

  "Robert Evans: 'Any man who says he can read a woman's thoughts is a man who knows nothing'". Interview With Sanjiv Bhattacharya, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2002.

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• But Hey, Guess What Crazy means I'm not liable for my actions. So screw it, I'll go home, propped up on Prozac against distractions

  Ellen Hopkins

  Crazy, Home, Mean

  Ellen Hopkins (2008). “Impulse”, p.459, Simon and Schuster

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• The most miraculous moments of my life were not when my daughter and son were born, but when the second or third Prozac pill shot down my throat and catapulted me into a world called sane.

  Lauren Slater

  Depression, Daughter, Son

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