67 result(s) for Sylvia Plath Quotes.
"I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am."
"I'm afraid sometimes you'll play lonely games too, games you can't win because you'll play against you."
"Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted."
"I am so demanding and difficult for my friends because I want to cradle them when they need it, and fix them when they are broken. I expect the same from them."
"The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence."
"I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between."
"I do not want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them."
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"God, but life is loneliness, despite all the opiates, despite the shrill tinsel gaiety of 'parties' with no purpose, despite the false grinning faces we all wear."
"There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them."
"I want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same."
"I am outcast on a cold star, unable to feel anything but an awful despair."
"I am calm. I am calm. I am perfectly calm."
"I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do."
"The silence is so deep it hurts our ears."
"I am not cruel, only truthful."
"I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. ... Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between."
"Dying is an art, like everything else."
"I desire the things which will destroy me in the end."
"If you expect nothing from anybody, you're never disappointed."
"Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me a little?"
"I am, I am, I am."
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"The hardest thing is to live richly in the present without letting it be tainted out of fear for the future or regret for the past."
"I am dreadfully underqualified for life, but it does have its strange moments."
"There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them."
"Living with him is like being told a perpetual story: his mind is the biggest, most imaginative I have ever met. I could live in its growing countries forever."
"I think I made you up inside my head."
"The bell jar hung, suspended, a few feet above my head. I was open to the circulating air of the world."
"To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is the bad dream."
"I am vertical but I would rather be horizontal. I am not a tree with my root in the soil sucking up minerals and motherly love."
"Kiss me, and you will see how important I am."
"I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose."
"Water, water, I need water in this strange desert."
"If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell."
"I am sure there are things that can't be cured by a good bath but I can't think of one."
"I do not love; I do not love anybody except myself. That is a rather shocking thing to admit."
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"I am. I am. I am."
"The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it."
"I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want."
"If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed."
"I love people. Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his collection."
"Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well."
"The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt."
"I like people too much or not at all. I’ve got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them."
"And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt."
"If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed."
"The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence."
"I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket."
"I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am."
"I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again."
"Is there no way out of the mind?"
"I am too pure for you or anyone."
"I talk to God but the sky is empty."
"I love my rejection slips. They show me I try."
"I desire the things that will destroy me in the end."
"It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing negative."
"I am out with lanterns, looking for myself."
"I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me."
"I am what I am. To look for different is deceit."
"I write only because there is a voice within me that will not be still."
"I write only because there is a voice within me that demands to be heard."
"I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart: I am, I am, I am."
"To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream."
"Why can't I try on different lives, like dresses, to see which fits best?"
"Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing."
"I am too strong to live and too weak to die."
"How frail the human heart must be – a mirrored pool of thought."
"Life is pain, and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic."
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