Sylvia Plath quotes - page 8

I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo. (Sylvia Plath)
I like people too much or not at all. I've got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them. View quote
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Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me a little? For all my despair, for all my ideals, for all that - I love life. But it is hard, and I have so much - so very much to learn. View quote
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The door of the novel, like the door of the poem, also shuts. But not so fast, nor with such manic, unanswerable finality. View quote
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And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter- they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long. View quote
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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. View quote
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Every woman adores a Fascist, The boot in the face, the brute Brute heart of a brute like you. View quote
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I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery-air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy. View quote
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I was supposed to be having the time of my life. View quote
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I wonder why I don't go to bed and go to sleep. But then it would be tomorrow, so I decide that no matter how tired, no matter how incoherent I am, I can skip on hour more of sleep and live. View quote
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What did my arms do before they held you? (Sylvia Plath)
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. View quote
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I think I made you up inside my head. View quote
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So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough. View quote
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I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow. View quote
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There I went again, building up a glamorous picture of a man who would love me passionately the minute he met me, and all out of a few prosy nothings. View quote
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I love my rejection slips. They show me I try. View quote
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I would catch sight of some flawless man off in the distance, but as soon as he moved closer I immediately saw he wouldn't do at all. View quote
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Here I am, a bundle of past recollections and future dreams, knotted up in a reasonably attractive bundle of flesh. I remember what this flesh has gone through; I dream of what it may go through. View quote
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Why do we electrocute men for murdering an individual and then pin a purple heart on them for mass slaughter of someone arbitrarily labeled "enemy? View quote
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Character is fate. (Sylvia Plath)
My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you. View quote
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No day is safe from news of you. View quote
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I have stitched life into me like a rare organ. View quote
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I am dead to them, even though I once flowered. View quote
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