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.

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It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.

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I desire the things which will destroy me in the end.

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How we need another soul to cling to.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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The blood of love welled up in my heart with a slow pain.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Wear your heart on your skin in this life.

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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.

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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.

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I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life.

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I am made, crudely, for success.

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There ought, I thought, to be a ritual for being born twice - patched, retreaded and approved for the road.

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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.

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The one thing I was good at was winning scholarships and prizes, and that era was coming to an end.

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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.

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Out of the ash I rise with my red hair and I eat men like air.

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Sylvia Plath

Occupation: American Poet
Born: October 27, 1932
Died: February 11, 1963
Quotes count: 354
Wikipedia: Sylvia Plath

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