Elizabeth Wurtzel Quotes

There are times I can't even figure myself out.

I am always with myself, and it is I who am my tormentor.

I've had times in my life when I really haven't been able to figure myself out.

All of my close friends are emotional train wrecks. This is what makes our lives interesting - constantly doubting ourselves, worrying, wondering if we've made a mistake. Could we have done better? Are we good people? Are we bad people?

Looking in the mirror, staring back at me isn't so much a face as the expression of a predicament.

There are some things about myself I can’t explain to anyone. There are some things I don’t understand at all. I can’t tell what I think about things or what I’m after. I don’t know what my strengths are or what I’m supposed to do about them. But if I start thinking about these things in too much detail the whole thing gets scary. And if I get scared I can only think about myself. I become really self-centered, and without meaning to, I hurt people. So I’m not such a wonderful human being.

People are running, running, but there is no place in the world to which they can flee to escape themselves. Ultimately, each one must face himself.

My face too blind, my mind too limited, my instincts too narrow. But this intensity, doesn't it mean anything?

I am. I am, I exist, I think, therefore I am; I am because I think, why do I think? I don't want to think any more, I am because I think that I don't want to be, I think that I . . . because . . . ugh!

I am really puzzled to understand myself.

If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am.

One of the things that makes Hamlet unique among Shakespeare's characters is his courage to face up to the darker elements of his personality.

Throughout my life, I have grappled with my own identity, who I am. As a young child, I often felt ambivalent about myself, in fact, confused.

I know that I am what I am. But I am not sure what I am.

I had a series of mini-breakdowns where the public persona - this thing, this face, this person who writes this music... I would walk past that person in the mirror or listen to that person playing guitar and I didn't know who they were.

I'm pretty sure I'm not at war with myself.

I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man.

Thinking back to those earlier days, I felt I was weak when I wasn't making movies, and then when I was, I thought I was weak as a family member.

Where I fit in is confusing to me.

I was actually looking for answers where I kept asking myself - what am I doing?

I feel like I'm in my own head a lot; it just feels amazing, but scary, weird and confusing.

I look in the mirror, and what I see is someone who has never grown up - a crashing sentimentalist who alternates between great heights and black depths.

I've always been at war with myself, for right or wrong. I don't know how to explain it more. It's universal. Some people are better at dealing with it, and they sleep with no pain - not pain, arguments. I've grown quite comfortable with being at war.

Whenever we feel shame, it's a mark of some deep investment or deep internal struggle.

I have the words 'love' and 'life' on my knuckles, and I would half like those removed.