Wurtzel Prozac Quotes

#1. The greatest progress we have made, and the greatest progress we have yet to make, is in the human heart. In the end, all the world's wealth and a thousand armies are no match for the strength and decency of the human spirit.

William J. Clinton

#2. 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

#3. It's ridiculous. My life's been a series of happy accidents.

Lucas Neff

#4. If you don't know where you've come from, how in Heaven's name will you ever figure out where you're going?

Jodi Picoult

#5. In high school, I got picked on. It's funny that I got tormented for what I'm doing now - the acting thing. People would see me in a Nickelodeon commercial, and I would hear about it the next day at school. Kids would say, 'Hi, TV Boy.' They heckled. I never got beat up.

Jason Biggs

#6. 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

#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. Every village has its simpleton, and if one does not exist they invent one to pass the time.

Nikos Kazantzakis

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

Elizabeth Wurtzel

#10. You must be classic. Put yourselves before the model in a workmanlike spirit.

Andre Lhote

#11. How come when you're feeling good like this, something always happens to wreck it all? How come?

Gary D. Schmidt

#12. The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#13. Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

W. Clement Stone

#14. I still want what I've always wanted ... to be the best person I can be.

Oprah Winfrey

#15. I want to be happy while I make movies and not just do things just to work. I want to do things I spend years on.

Cary Fukunaga

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

Elizabeth Wurtzel

#17. 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

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

Elizabeth Wurtzel