Prozac's Quotes

#1. I'm not as depressed as I used to be. The Prozac's working!

Billie Joe Armstrong

#2. When you made tons of money, had a beautiful wife and three adorable kids-when you were the envy of your community and coworkers-you had no right to behave badly. Stop whining, chin up, take Prozac, and pretend your pain isn't ravaging your soul.

C.S. Lakin

#3. Were Moses to go up Mount Sinai today, the two tablets he'd bring down with him would be aspirin and Prozac.

Joseph A. Califano Jr.

#4. 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

#5. Being creative is good for the mind... I write because I don't want to take Prozac!

Flossy Abraham

#6. I know a number of autistic adults that are doing extremely well on Prozac.

Temple Grandin

#7. 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

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

Elizabeth Wurtzel

#9. 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

#10. If I behave like a good boy and take my Prozac ... then I won't be able to write anymore.
I'll have Writer's block from not being able to communicate with the characters in my mind.

Timothy Pina

#11. And I saw ans still see everything that I do have, but no matter what, there is always the itch of what gets lost.

Lauren Slater

#12. 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

#13. Arson is almost as good as Prozac.

Joe Hill

#14. I tell people that going for a run is like taking a little bit of Prozac and a little bit of Ritalin because,

John J. Ratey

#15. There have been periods in my life where I have experienced depression. It has been through some of my darkest moments that I have written some of my best songs. For me, singing and writing is very therapeutic. It's much more effective than taking Prozac!

Gerry Rafferty

#16. Prozac, too made me want to weep. Prozac, too, was grief, because it returned me to the regular world with consequences I never expected.

Lauren Slater

#17. How was life before Pop-Tarts, Prozac and padded playgrounds? They ate strudel, took opium and played on the grass.

Jennifer Michael Hecht

#18. Who needed Prozac when a girl could get Pillsbury without a prescription?" ~Allie Shelby, Personal Assets

Kelsey Browning

#19. Serotonin, the "feel-good" brain chemical that is boosted by Prozac, depends on magnesium for its production and function.

Carolyn Dean

#20. The success of Prozac says that today's high-tech capitalism values a very different temperament. Confidence, flexibility, quickness, and energy - the positive aspects of hyperthymia - are at a premium.

Peter D. Kramer

#21. But I think Prozac is a lethal drug, I've several friends just haven't made it by taking Prozac.

Bob Geldof

#22. Getting better was a grief. One morning you woke up and your fever had fled. Your throat felt depressingly fine.

Lauren Slater

#23. I was hoping against hope he'd refill his Prozac so we could be in love again, but, sadly, that never happened.

Piper Faust

#24. All the commercials on TV today are for antidepressants, for Prozac or Paxil. And they get you right away. "Are you sad? Do you get stressed, do you have anxiety?" "Yes, I have all those things! I'm alive!"

Ellen DeGeneres

#25. But I did have two months off between Loser and the start of Prozac Nation. So, it was supposed to be Jason time, right? My time to enjoy myself away from movies.

Jason Biggs

#26. I couldn't reach her. I was never able to reach her. Maybe she moved at a pace too fast. Maybe she was too sad. She held herself stiff, a lacquered lady. I think because I couldn't feel her, I couldn't feel myself.

Lauren Slater

#27. America is terrified of the passage of time. Prozac Nation. Land of Face Lifts.

Dirk Benedict

#28. It was five o'clock when the stupid rooster started crowing relentlessly, robbing me of my sleep. The sun hadn't even risen yet. Dumbass bird should be on Prozac.

Alison Bliss

#29. 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

#30. We can put women on Prozac and they will think they are happy, even though they are not. Disturbed animals in the zoo are given Prozac too, which rather suggests that misery is a response to unbearable circumstances rather than constitutional.

Germaine Greer

#31. In illness, the world went wonderfully warped, high temperatures turning your pillow to a dune of snow and bringing the night sky, with its daisy-sized stars, so close to your bed you could touch it, and taste the moon.

Lauren Slater

#32. 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

#33. "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

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

Woody Allen

#35. I hope one of my fans has one of your kids shot: and blames it on acid, prozac, and slipknot.

Immortal Technique

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

Elizabeth Wurtzel

#37. Been around a lot of psychos in my lifetime and have come to the realization ... that most of them work in Washington and that they should never miss their daily dose of Prozac. It always works wonders for me!(Jack)

Timothy Pina

#38. 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.

Jim Carrey

#39. In the Sixties people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird, people take Prozac to make it normal.

Damon Albarn

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

Elizabeth Wurtzel

#41. This guy was beyond lucky. He was Midas with a better attorney, or the owner of a Monkey's Paw version 2.0, or Richard Cory on Prozac.

John L. Monk

#42. Well this is me without my prozac, and this is me just shy of nicotine, and mother fuckers, it's my second time to fail anger management class.

Buddy Wakefield

#43. it was Elner who gave me my first cat, after I had my breakdown, when I told her the doctor said I needed Prozac. She said, 'Tot, sometimes what you need is a kitten,' and you know, she was right.

Fannie Flagg

#44. 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

#45. Illness was a temporary respite, a release from the demands of an alienating world.

Lauren Slater

#46. If you have been sick for a long, long time, Prozac may make you high. It probably won't make you, never quite managed to be a part of, but a world, nevertheless, that you at first fit into with the precision of a key to a lock or a neurotransmitter to its receptor.

Lauren Slater

#47. Peter Breggin, an American psychiatrist, had been criticising SSRIs since the early 1990s. He wrote 'Talking Back to Prozac' (1995) to repudiate psychiatrist Peter Kramer's 'Listening to Prozac' (1993) - a bestseller which claimed that Prozac made patients 'better than well.'

John Cornwell

#48. Whatever your pleasure, I can facilitate. You need weed, you need meth- hey, you need Prozac, I'm your man. I know how you white boys always deal with that depression. I mean me personally, I don't understand what you white boys are all depressed about. Hey, you're white! Smile!

Chris Rock

#49. 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

#50. I've tried everything. I've done therapy, I've done colonics. I went to a psychic who had me running around town buying pieces of ribbon to fill the colors in my aura. Did the Prozac thing.

Jim Carrey

#51. Cynthia sighs, contemplating a fruit and nut bar. 'Chocolate,' she says despairingly. 'Safer than cocaine, easier to get hold of than Prozac. The government's most effective way to prevent revolution.

Jennifer Gilby Roberts

#52. I was terrified when my doctor told me that I had a unique and interesting personality trait, but then he told me about new Zoloft or Prozac and now I just take three pills a day and I blend right into this horrible inbred corporate landscape.

Doug Stanhope

#53. I looked at him as if he was one Prozac away from a straightjacket.

Chrissy Peebles

#54. Sometimes I feel like there isn't enough Prozac in the world to make Environmental Protection Agency people feel better about their jobs. They're going out there, they're trying to protect Americans and then time and time and time again they get their knees cut off at the policy level.

Josh Fox

#55. I said everyone looks happy. That was kinda my point. If you judge the world by Facebook, you wonder why so many people take Prozac.

Harlan Coben

#56. Discouragement is a moral state, a failure of heart; you treat it by taking courage, not Prozac.

David Gelernter

#57. All the same, all different. What was it?

Lauren Slater

#58. How bitter were
the Prozac pills
of the last
few hundred mornings

Leonard Cohen

#59. I'm a clown, which could be a public health role. I'm really interested in moving our society away from a society needing Xanax and Prozac, and that is really feeling depressed, to one that is celebrating, and so I find just walking around in colorful clothes, people smile.

Patch Adams

#60. 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

#61. 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

#62. While consumers may be more shocked by pink slime or the feeding of Prozac to poultry, the routine feeding of millions of pounds of human antibiotics to chickens presents a much graver threat.

Michael Greger

#63. It's music as wallpaper, utilitarian, music as Prozac or Xanax to control how you feel. Music as aerosol room freshener.

Chuck Palahniuk

#64. The bane of Terri's life could use a prescription of Prozac.' (Terri)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#65. Most of you guys can't see the potential in a nervous breakdown. A real collapse. There's more chance of finding yourself in a major depression than there is in a bottle Prozac.

Keith Ablow

#66. Which God is the forgiving one, exactly? Old Testament, where He got His rocks off by smiting? Or New Testament, once Our Heavenly Father got Prozac?

Thomm Quackenbush

#67. Your blood reveal your most intimate secrets. Are you dying of leukimia or AIDS? Did you smoke cigarette or drink a glass of wine in the last few hours? Are you prozac because you're depressed, or Viagra because you can't get it up?

Tess Gerritsen

#68. I had lots of books, most of them nonfiction, because I'd always felt that in nonfiction, specifically in the disciplines of psychology, philosophy, and theology, I might find clues about ways to live my life.

Lauren Slater