Sylvia Plath quotes - page 7

Why can't I try on different lives, like dresses, to see which fits best and is more becoming? (Sylvia Plath)
And I sit here without identity: faceless. My head aches. View quote
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Now I know what loneliness is, I think. Momentary loneliness, anyway. It comes from a vague core of the self - - like a disease of the blood, dispersed throughout the body so that one cannot locate the matrix, the spot of contagion. View quote
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The only reason I remembered this play was because it had a mad person in it, and everything I had ever read about mad people stuck in my mind, while everything else flew out. View quote
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Maybe forgetfulness, like a kind snow, should numb and cover them. But they were a part of me. They were my landscape. View quote
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I wanted to crawl in between those black lines of print, the way you crawl through a fence, and go to sleep under that beautiful big green fig-tree. View quote
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The more hopeless you were, the further away they hid you. View quote
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I must be lean & write & make worlds beside this to live in. View quote
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All I want is blackness. Blackness and silence. View quote
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I must learn more about these people―try to understand them, put myself in their place. No, instead I am so busy keeping my head above water that I scarcely know who I am, much less who anyone else is. View quote
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Why the hell are we conditioned into the smooth strawberry-and-cream Mother-Goose-world, Alice-in-Wonderland fable, only to be broken on the wheel as we grow older and become aware of ourselves as individuals with a dull responsibility in life? (Sylvia Plath)
I am jealous of those who think more deeply, who write better, who draw better, who ski better, who look better, who live better, who love better than I. View quote
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I have suffered the atrocity of sunsets. View quote
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The thought that I might kill myself formed in my mind coolly as a tree or a flower. View quote
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I felt dumb and subdued. Every time I tried to concentrate, my mind glided off, like a skater, into a large empty space, and pirouetted there, absently. View quote
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It was my first big chance, but here I was, sitting back and letting it run through my fingers like so much water. View quote
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What is my life for and what am I going to do with it? I don't know and I'm afraid. 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. View quote
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How can you be so many women to so many strange people, oh you strange girl? View quote
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I began to think vodka was my drink at last. It didn't taste like anything, but it went straight down into my stomach like a sword swallowers' sword and made me feel powerful and godlike. View quote
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And the danger is that in this move toward new horizons and far directions, that I may lose what I have now, and not find anything except loneliness. View quote
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I didn't want any flowers, I only wanted to lie with my hands turned up and be utterly empty. How free it is, you have no idea how free. (Sylvia Plath)
I want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same. View quote
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Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning. View quote
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So many people are shut up tight inside themselves like boxes, yet they would open up, unfolding quite wonderfully, if only you were interested in them." () View quote
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I am still so naïve; I know pretty much what I like and dislike; but please, don't ask me who I am. A passionate, fragmentary girl, maybe? View quote
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