Elizabeth Wurtzel Prozac Nation Quotes

#1. I start to get the feeling that something is really wrong.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

#2. It seemed like this was one big Prozac nation, one big mess of malaise. Perhaps the next time half a million people gather for a protest march on the White House green it will not be for abortion rights or gay liberation, but because we're all so bummed out.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

#3. Your idea doesn't have to be big. It just has to be yours alone. The more the idea is yours alone, the more freedom you have to do something really amazing. The more amazing, the more people will click with your idea. The more people click with your idea, the more it will change the world.

Hugh MacLeod

#4. Colors close together on the color wheel are analogous and will make a calm room. Colors that are farther apart are complementary and add drama.

David Bromstad

#5. Everything's plastic, we're all going to die sooner or later, so what does it matter.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

#6. Landing on his feet was nothing new to Caleb. He did not believe in luck, he believed in the law of nature. Animals did not rely on luck. They lived and died by their instincts.

Arlene Hunt

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

Elizabeth Wurtzel

#8. The shortness of life, I keep saying, makes everything seem pointless when I think about the longness of death. When I look ahead, all I can see is my final demise. And they say, But maybe not for seventy or eighty years. And I say, Maybe you, but me, I'm already gone.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

#9. Everything good takes a great amount of effort. Like, things went wrong with 'Prozac Nation' so much, and it went through so many rejections and incarnations, but I felt so much that it needed to exist. But if I hadn't been so persistent and insistent, it wouldn't have happened.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

#10. I made 'Prozac Nation' necessary reading because I write necessarily. I tell my story because it is about everyone else: in 1993, people took pills to relieve the pain just like they do now, but it scared them; it doesn't any more, because talk is not cheap at all - it is tender.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

#11. In a psychomantium glass topples darkness. Things appear as they really are, people appear as they really are. Visions are called from a point inside the mirror, from a point inside the mind.

Helen Oyeyemi

#12. To this day, most people think of me as the fastest human. They don't really think me as a long jumper, although that's the event I had more success in.

Carl Lewis