I didn’t want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn’t know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of my throat and I’d cry for a week.
SYLVIA PLATHAloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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I don’t care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual.
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We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.
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The sheets grow heavy as a lecher’s kiss.
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If the body is a temple, then tattoos are its stained glass windows.
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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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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.
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I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.
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I want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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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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I dream too much, work too little.
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Every day is precious and I feel infinitely sad at this time melting away from me.
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When you give someone your whole heart and he doesn’t want it, you cannot take it back. It’s gone forever.
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Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children.
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Eternity bores me, I never wanted it.
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I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
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So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
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I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.
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Tomorrow is another day toward death.
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People or stars Regard me sadly, I disappoint them.
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I am what I feel and think and do.
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