Sometimes I feel like I’m not solid. I’m hollow. There’s nothing behind my eyes. I’m a negative of a person. All I want is blackness, blackness and silence.
SYLVIA PLATHPerfection is terrible, it cannot have children.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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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.
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Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.
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See, the darkness is leaking from the cracks. I cannot contain it. I cannot contain my life.
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What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.
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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.
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I want to taste and glory in each day, and never be afraid to experience pain; and never shut myself up in a numb core of nonfeeling, or stop questioning and criticizing life and take the easy way out.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.
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Love life day by day, color by color, touch by touch.
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The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.
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I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.
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I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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Only I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself.
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I write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still.
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I want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.
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