« All From Quotes · Elizabeth Wurtzel's Page
From Quotes by Elizabeth Wurtzel
- I know I can do so much more than this, I know that I could be a life force, could love with a heart full…
- The biggest problem that women have is being ambivalent about their own power, ... We should be comfortable with the idea of wielding power. We…
- The American Dream, coupled with government subsidies of utilities and cheap consumer goods courtesy of slave labour somewhere else, has kept the poor huddled masses…
- I was meant to date the captain of the football team, I was going to be on a romantic excursion every Saturday night, I was…
- I wonder if any of them can tell from just looking at me that all I am is the sum total of my pain, a…
- Pick a man, any man. Every guy I fall for becomes Jesus Christ within the first twenty-four hours of our relationship. I know that this…
- In a typical mental health catch-22, the alienating nature of depression tends to keep its sufferers from finding their way to the very support groups…
- If you are chronically down, it is a lifelong fight to keep from sinking
- How can you hide from what never goes away? --Heraclitus
- Jesus, I wondered, what do you do with pain so bad it has no redeeming value? It cannot even be alchemized into art, into words,…
- The brief relief of seeing other people when I leave my room turns into a desperate need to be alone, and then being alone turns…
- Getting help for substance abuse can be reduced to the deceptively simple focus of ‘keeping away from the dope.’ But what does getting help with…
- I come from a family of screamers. If they are trying to express any emotion or idea beyond pass the salt, it comes in shrieks.
More From Quotes
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. — Ludovico Ariosto
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Haiti, Haiti, the further I am from you, the less I breathe. Haiti, I love you, and I will love you always.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- In 1994, when I went back to Haiti from exile, we established a Commission for Truth and Justice and Reconciliation. I passed… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle