Create Yours

Top 20 Elliot Perlman Quotes (2025 Update)

Elliot Perlman Quote: “Hell is the special pain that dwells in that loss which you yourself have caused.”

1. “Hell is the special pain that dwells in that loss which you yourself have caused.”

— Elliot Perlman

Elliot Perlman Quote: “You know you’re in love with somebody when you wake up next to them, comfortable despite your breath smelling like the week-old water at the bottom of a vase, when you are terribly excited to see them, to talk to them again, having missed them after all that sleep.”

2. “You know you’re in love with somebody when you wake up next to them, comfortable despite your breath smelling like the week-old water at the bottom of a vase, when you are terribly excited to see them, to talk to them again, having missed them after all that sleep.”

— Elliot Perlman

Elliot Perlman Quote: “What is it about men that make women so lonely?”

3. “What is it about men that make women so lonely?”

— Elliot Perlman

Elliot Perlman Quote: “When you’re younger, you tend to be reckless about trying to find out who you are and what you can do and should do. But as you get older you become more accepting of yourself, and with that comes greater contentment.”

4. “When you’re younger, you tend to be reckless about trying to find out who you are and what you can do and should do. But as you get older you become more accepting of yourself, and with that comes greater contentment.”

— Elliot Perlman

Elliot Perlman Quote: “You were trying to tell me something and I was trying to tell you something else. We didn’t trust each other and that was reason enough to make each of us right.”

5. “You were trying to tell me something and I was trying to tell you something else. We didn’t trust each other and that was reason enough to make each of us right.”

— Elliot Perlman

Elliot Perlman Quote: “I used to be a child. It came naturally to me. I was an adult for a time, too. That came less naturally.”

6. “I used to be a child. It came naturally to me. I was an adult for a time, too. That came less naturally.”

— Elliot Perlman

Elliot Perlman Quote: “As my name might suggest, I’m Jewish. My grandparents were Polish and Russian Jews who came to Australia in the late 1920s, and had they not, we wouldn’t be talking now.”

7. “As my name might suggest, I’m Jewish. My grandparents were Polish and Russian Jews who came to Australia in the late 1920s, and had they not, we wouldn’t be talking now.”

— Elliot Perlman

Elliot Perlman Quote: “The peculiar striations that define someone’s personality are too numerous to know, no matter how close the observer. A person we think we know can suddenly become someone else when previously hidden strands of his character are called to the fore by circumstance.”

8. “The peculiar striations that define someone’s personality are too numerous to know, no matter how close the observer. A person we think we know can suddenly become someone else when previously hidden strands of his character are called to the fore by circumstance.”

— Elliot Perlman

Elliot Perlman Quote: “He sits in his car at traffic lights on his way out sometimes and tries to estimate how many times he has sat here, waiting at these traffic lights on his way somewhere without you, hoping to meet someone with the capacity to consign you to an anecdote, to be eventually confused with others.”

9. “He sits in his car at traffic lights on his way out sometimes and tries to estimate how many times he has sat here, waiting at these traffic lights on his way somewhere without you, hoping to meet someone with the capacity to consign you to an anecdote, to be eventually confused with others.”

— Elliot Perlman

Elliot Perlman Quote: “Memory is a wilful dog. It won’t be summoned or dismissed but it cannot survive without you. It can sustain you or feed on you. It visits when it is hungry, not when you are. It has a schedule all of its own that you can never know. It can capture, corner you or liberate you. It can leave you howling and it can make you smile.”

10. “Memory is a wilful dog. It won’t be summoned or dismissed but it cannot survive without you. It can sustain you or feed on you. It visits when it is hungry, not when you are. It has a schedule all of its own that you can never know. It can capture, corner you or liberate you. It can leave you howling and it can make you smile.”

— Elliot Perlman

Elliot Perlman Quote: “Charisma will sustain a relationship only in the way that strong coffee first thing in the morning will sustain a career.”

11. “Charisma will sustain a relationship only in the way that strong coffee first thing in the morning will sustain a career.”

— Elliot Perlman

Elliot Perlman Quote: “You would love the way he sees you. He uses you as a weapon against himself and not merely because you did.”

12. “You would love the way he sees you. He uses you as a weapon against himself and not merely because you did.”

— Elliot Perlman

Elliot Perlman Quote: “Madeline, my wife, never used to wear a watch. She does now, I am told. For a long time, in a very inexact way, I had kept time for her. There was the time before we were married and the time after. There was the time before I was hospitalised and the time after. There was the time she needed me and the time after. And there is now.”

13. “Madeline, my wife, never used to wear a watch. She does now, I am told. For a long time, in a very inexact way, I had kept time for her. There was the time before we were married and the time after. There was the time before I was hospitalised and the time after. There was the time she needed me and the time after. And there is now.”

— Elliot Perlman

Elliot Perlman Quote: “What else is life from the time you were born but a struggle to matter, at least to someone?”

14. “What else is life from the time you were born but a struggle to matter, at least to someone?”

— Elliot Perlman

Elliot Perlman Quote: “Combine a left-leaning upbringing with a family with direct experience of the Holocaust and someone with aspirations to write and I guess, sooner or later, that person will have a stab at writing something about the Holocaust.”

15. “Combine a left-leaning upbringing with a family with direct experience of the Holocaust and someone with aspirations to write and I guess, sooner or later, that person will have a stab at writing something about the Holocaust.”

— Elliot Perlman

Elliot Perlman Quote: “The reason his father has no time for poetry is that he is afraid of the messiness of life. Poetry feeds on all that spills over the boundaries of the usual things, the everyday things with which most people are obsessed, so William has no time for it.”

16. “The reason his father has no time for poetry is that he is afraid of the messiness of life. Poetry feeds on all that spills over the boundaries of the usual things, the everyday things with which most people are obsessed, so William has no time for it.”

— Elliot Perlman

Elliot Perlman Quote: “He uses you as a weapon against himself and not merely because you did. He sits in his car at traffic lights on his way out sometimes and tries to estimate how many times he has sat here, waiting at these traffic lights on his way somewhere without you, hoping to meet someone with the capacity to consign you to an anecdote, to be eventually confused with others. He thinks of you when the woman lying next to him thinks he’s asleep.”

17. “He uses you as a weapon against himself and not merely because you did. He sits in his car at traffic lights on his way out sometimes and tries to estimate how many times he has sat here, waiting at these traffic lights on his way somewhere without you, hoping to meet someone with the capacity to consign you to an anecdote, to be eventually confused with others. He thinks of you when the woman lying next to him thinks he’s asleep.”

— Elliot Perlman

Elliot Perlman Quote: “Perhaps people ought to feel with more imagination.”

18. “Perhaps people ought to feel with more imagination.”

— Elliot Perlman

Elliot Perlman Quote: “What he and many people don’t understand is that there is more to depression than a sometimes overwhelming feeling of inadequacy and hopelessness and profound sadness. When people are depressed they are sometimes very, very angry. They are not just quietly miserable. They can be filled with great passion.”

19. “What he and many people don’t understand is that there is more to depression than a sometimes overwhelming feeling of inadequacy and hopelessness and profound sadness. When people are depressed they are sometimes very, very angry. They are not just quietly miserable. They can be filled with great passion.”

— Elliot Perlman

Elliot Perlman Quote: “I hold him to my chest. My love for him is the only unequivocally good thing I know is always there inside of me. It is the reason I should be spared all that is coming, the only reason.”

20. “I hold him to my chest. My love for him is the only unequivocally good thing I know is always there inside of me. It is the reason I should be spared all that is coming, the only reason.”

— Elliot Perlman

Elliot Perlman Quote: “Being an insomniac only slows me down. I try not to write at night, as I’m concerned that this will affect the quality.”

21. “Being an insomniac only slows me down. I try not to write at night, as I’m concerned that this will affect the quality.”

— Elliot Perlman

Elliot Perlman Quote: “It’s like the smell of burned toast. You made the toast. You looked forward to it. You even enjoyed making it, but it burned. What were you doing? Was it your fault? It doesn’t matter anymore. You open the window, but only the very top layer of the smell goes away. The rest remains around you. It’s the walls. You leave the room, but it’s on your clothes. You change your clothes, but it’s in your hair. It’s on the thin skin on the tops of your hand. And in the morning, it’s still there.”

22. “It’s like the smell of burned toast. You made the toast. You looked forward to it. You even enjoyed making it, but it burned. What were you doing? Was it your fault? It doesn’t matter anymore. You open the window, but only the very top layer of the smell goes away. The rest remains around you. It’s the walls. You leave the room, but it’s on your clothes. You change your clothes, but it’s in your hair. It’s on the thin skin on the tops of your hand. And in the morning, it’s still there.”

— Elliot Perlman

Elliot Perlman Quote: “Being judgmental must surely be one of the most joyful activities known to the species and it is cruel that other animals are denied this pleasure.”

23. “Being judgmental must surely be one of the most joyful activities known to the species and it is cruel that other animals are denied this pleasure.”

— Elliot Perlman

Motivational Quotes

Motivational Quotes

Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes

Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes

Positive Quotes

Positive Quotes

Albert Einstein Quotes

Albert Einstein Quotes

Motivational Quotes

Motivational Quotes

INSPIRATIONAL SUCCESS MOTIVATIONAL

Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes

Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes

ENTREPRENEURSHIP BUSINESS INSPIRATIONAL

Positive Quotes

Positive Quotes

Albert Einstein Quotes

Albert Einstein Quotes

ENTREPRENEURSHIP BUSINESS INSPIRATIONAL

Steve Jobs Quotes

Steve Jobs Quotes

ENTREPRENEURSHIP BUSINESS APPLE

Inspirational Quotes

Inspirational Quotes

COURAGE MOTIVATIONAL STRENGTH

INSPIRATIONAL SUCCESS MOTIVATIONAL

Swami Vivekananda Quotes

Swami Vivekananda Quotes

LIFE SPIRITUALITY

Save image...
Permalink
Open in new tab
Copy quote text

Beautiful Wallpapers and Images

We hope you enjoyed our collection of 20 Elliot Perlman Quotes.

All the images on this page were created with QuoteFancy Studio.

Use QuoteFancy Studio to create high-quality images for your desktop backgrounds, blog posts, presentations, social media, videos, posters, and more.

Thank you!

Please check your email.