Sylvia Plath quotes - page 3

This is the light of the mind, cold and planetary. The trees of the mind are black. The light is blue. (Sylvia Plath)
At twenty I tried to die And get back, back, back to you. I thought even the bones would do. View quote
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I am terrified by this dark thing That sleeps in me; All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity. View quote
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I felt dreadfully inadequate. The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn't thought about it. View quote
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Worse even than your maddening song, your silence." View quote
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I am sure there are things that can't be cured by a good bath but I can't think of one. View quote
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Only I wasn't steering anything, not even myself. View quote
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No, I won't try to escape myself by losing myself in artificial chatter 'Did you have a nice vacation?' 'Oh, yes, and you?' I'll stay here and try to pin that loneliness down. View quote
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I suppose I'll always be over-vulnerable, slightly paranoid. View quote
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I started adding up all the things I couldn't do. View quote
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I buried my head under the darkness of the pillow and pretended it was night. I couldn't see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to. (Sylvia Plath)
The trouble about jumping was that if you didn't pick the right number of storeys, you might still be alive when you hit bottom. View quote
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If you love her", I said, "you'll love somebody else someday. View quote
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Then I decided I would spend the summer writing a novel. That would fix a lot of people. View quote
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Oh, something is there, waiting for me. Perhaps someday the revelation will burst in upon me and I will see the other side of this monumental grotesque joke. And then I'll laugh. And then I'll know what life is. View quote
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I collected men with interesting names. View quote
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A ring of gold with the sun in it? Lies. Lies and a grief. View quote
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Miracles occur, If you dare to call those spasmodic Tricks of radiance miracles. The wait's begun again, The long wait for the angel, For that rare, random descent. View quote
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Writing, then, was a substitute for myself: if you don't love me, love my writing & love me for my writing. It is also much more: a way of ordering and reordering the chaos of experience. View quote
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I cut you out because I couldn't stand being a passing fancy. View quote
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If only I can find him... the man who will be intelligent, yet physically magnetic and personable. If I can offer that combination, why shouldn't I expect it in a man? (Sylvia Plath)
I don't see what women see in other women," I'd told Doctor Nolan in my interview that noon. "What does a woman see in a woman that she can't see in a man?" Doctor Nolan paused. Then she said, "Tenderness. View quote
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God has to remind us this isn't heaven by a long shot, so he increases the radios and lethal flies. View quote
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The frost makes a flower, the dew makes a star. View quote
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Your body Hurts me as the world hurts God. View quote
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