Time Quotes by Elizabeth Wurtzel

You don't even have to hate to have a perfectly miserable time.

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

I wasn't just the madwoman in the attic--I was the attic itself. The past was all over me, all under me, all…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

I am sick of the girl who cries 'wolf' all the time. Even though not one of those cries was ever a…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

“Time passes slowly, or too fast, or it makes no difference.”

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

That's what it's like in my head all the time, constant snow, constant weather patterns of all sorts - blizzards, cyclones.

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

The men have piled up in my past, have fallen trenchantly through my life, like an avalanche that doesn't mean to kill…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

“Hemingway has his classic moment in "The Sun Also Rises" when someone asks Mike Campbell how he went bankrupt. All he can…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

“Because, frankly, I have a tough time feeling that feminism has done a damn bit of good if I can't be the…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

I wanted so much to forget the past, but it wouldn't go away, it hung around like an open wound that refused…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

I have had the same friends since college, although as time has gone on, the daily nature of those relationships has changed,…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

Like, in high school, I was a good student and got straight As. It was very strict and you couldn't do well…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

Even if I remember the first time perfectly, I don't remember the beginning at all. I mean: the beginning of addiction. It's…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

The moment in The Bell Jar when Esther Greenwood realizes after thirty days in the same black turtleneck that she never wants…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

“...if you ask anyone in the throes of depression how he got there, to pin down the turning point, he'll never know.…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

I had a really hard time after 9/11. I was basically living across the street from the World Trade Center, and a…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

Some people just seem like they are up to no good. Like, in high school, I was a good student and got…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

I am so tired of the girl in the infirmary, I am so sick of the girl who cries wolf all the…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

I could not bear the deep freeze settling around my bones at the thought that yet another attempt to get out of…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

If you want to see that human story unfold, if you want to understand that only the unexpected life is worth a…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

Pick a man, any man. Every guy I fall for becomes Jesus Christ within the first twenty-four hours of our relationship. I…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

Love is rather impotent and pitiful: My father must have told me a million times how much he loved me, but that…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

That's the thing I want to make clear about depression: It's got nothing at all to do with life. In the course…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

“That’s the thing I want to make clear about depression: It’s got nothing at all to do with life. In the course…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

“By the time the sixties hit their home bases, we the kids, were already born, and our parents found themselves stuck between…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

“I was, after the breakup, what you call a complete wreck. For the first time in my life, my pain had a…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

“We try, we struggle, all the time to find words to express our love. The quality, the quantity, certain that no two…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

“Forget about the scant hours in her brief life when Sylvia Plath was able to produce the works in Ariel. Forget about…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

“Some catastrophic moments invite clarity, explode in split moments: You smash your hand through a windowpane and then there is blood and…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

“The atypically depressed are more likely to be the walking wounded, people like me who are quite functional, whose lives proceed almost…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

There is a classic moment in ‘The Sun Also Rises’ when someone asks Mike Campbell how he went bankrupt, and all he…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

My imagination, my ability to understand the way love and people grow over time, how passion can surprise and renew, utterly failed…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

“Sometimes someone will be standing in front of me, and already I feel him walking away. It's only a matter of time,…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

I believe women who are supported by men are prostitutes, that is that, and I am heartbroken to live through a time…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

I used to feel that I spent too much of my time in my pajamas doing nothing, and I'd think 'in the…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

“And then, if I die anytime soon, at least they'll be able to say that I led a productive life and did…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

Nothing in my life ever seemed to fade away or take its rightful place among the pantheon of experiences that constituted my…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

And what I thought, every time I thought about my father, every time his name came up, was quite simply: I WANT…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

I’ve been looking for a feeling like that everywhere I go. I’ve been waiting for someone to see all the good in…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel