Elizabeth Wurtzel Quotes

We all have times when we go home at night and pull out our hair and feel misunderstood and lonely and like we're falling. I think the brain is such that there is always going to be something missing.

I'm always wearing Spanx, eating ice cream and feeling a bit lonely.

In my own mind, I was sort of a desperate kid.

Being on your own would be sad, sick and weird. I don't trust myself. I need that balance.

If someone feels that they're abandoned, there are always complicated feelings. There are always reasons for why people do the things that they do.

Fear is a huge thing for older people.

Victims always feel alone and helpless.

I thought I wasn't attractive or talented anymore. I cried easily and was depressed and removed. I became emotionally insecure about what the second half of my life would bring. I was angry, scared, frightened and lonely.

You're always tellin' me to go out more, Go ahead, get out and see the world, But then I think, why should I? I'd rather stay home and cry.

I'm self-loathing, introverted, and neurotic.

For a while I couldn't leave the house by myself. Even if I was just grocery shopping alone, I'd get self-conscious.

Nobody understands me, I'm really sensitive.

Loneliness and rootlessness are just symptoms of an insecurity that assails us all when hitting this midlife moment. The world appears intent on blanking you out.

I think people tend to see the bigger point, which is maybe not fitting in and feeling like you didn't have the childhood that you expected you would have, or that you felt lonely or struggled with drugs and alcohol or just that you were able to achieve your dreams.

I was such a sullen, angry, sad kid. I'm sure there are writers who have had happy childhoods, but what are you going to write about? No ghosts, no fear. I'm very happy that I had an unhappy and uncomfortable childhood.

Sometimes I just wish nobody knew who I was.

A lot of the time, I was unhappy as a kid, so I spent it, I guess, in a gray place.

I think a lot of kids feel alone and slightly isolated and in their own world.

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.

I can relate to having those people in your life that you feel are moving on to this great, big, normal life and you're like, 'What's wrong with me?'

A lot of people assume that women of a certain age who are not unattractive have no excuse for not having a perfect life. But you can have emotional baggage that is dragging you down like cement blocks tied to your feet.

Hemingway has expressed with genius the terrors of the modern man at the danger of losing control of his world

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.

I wouldn't want anything to do with me.

Because I am basically so insecure and anxious and afraid, I never, ever in my life learned to reach out for help, ever.