Sylvia Plath quotes - page 2

I must get back my soul from you; I am killing my flesh without it. (Sylvia Plath)
I like people too much or not at all. View quote
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It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere. View quote
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I desire the things which will destroy me in the end. View quote
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How we need another soul to cling to. View quote
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What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age. View quote
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Frustrated? Yes. Why? Because it is impossible for me to be God - or the universal woman-and-man - or anything much. I am what I feel and think and do. I want to express my being as fully as I can because I somewhere picked up the idea that I could justify my being alive that way. View quote
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I thought how strange it had never occurred to me before that I was only purely happy until I was nine years old. View quote
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It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing negative--which ever is running at the moment dominates my life, floods it. View quote
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The blood of love welled up in my heart with a slow pain. View quote
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Wherever I sat - on the deck of a ship or at a street café in Paris or Bangkok - I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air. (Sylvia Plath)
To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is the bad dream. View quote
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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. View quote
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So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed, and afterward you went about as numb as a slave in some private, totalitarian state. View quote
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Wear your heart on your skin in this life. View quote
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There is so much hurt in this game of searching for a mate, of testing, trying. And you realize suddenly that you forgot it was a game, and turn away in tears. View quote
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There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room. View quote
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I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life. View quote
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I am made, crudely, for success. View quote
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There ought, I thought, to be a ritual for being born twice - patched, retreaded and approved for the road. View quote
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The moon is no door. It is a face in its own right, White as a knuckle and terribly upset. It drags the sea after it like a dark crime; it is quiet With the O-gape of complete despair. I live here. (Sylvia Plath)
The abstract kills, the concrete saves. View quote
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The one thing I was good at was winning scholarships and prizes, and that era was coming to an end. View quote
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Dying Is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call. View quote
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Out of the ash I rise with my red hair and I eat men like air. View quote
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