More from Sylvia Plath
The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
Sylvia PlathSylvia Plath 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.
Sylvia PlathSylvia Plath I am what I feel and think and do.
Sylvia PlathSylvia Plath Tomorrow is another day toward death.
Sylvia PlathSylvia Plath We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.
Sylvia PlathSylvia Plath I want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life.
Sylvia PlathSylvia Plath I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.
Sylvia PlathSylvia Plath Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.
Sylvia PlathSylvia Plath There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone.
Sylvia PlathSylvia Plath I love life. But it is hard and I have so much, so very much to learn.
Sylvia PlathSylvia Plath The truth comes to me. The truth loves me.
Sylvia PlathSylvia Plath She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist.
Sylvia PlathSylvia Plath It’s a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It’s much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all.
Sylvia PlathSylvia Plath If the body is a temple, then tattoos are its stained glass windows.
Sylvia PlathSylvia Plath The constant struggle in mature life, I think, is to accept the necessity of tragedy and conflict, and not to try to escape to some falsely simple solution which does not include these more somber complexities.
Sylvia PlathSylvia Plath I am too pure for you or anyone.
Sylvia PlathSylvia Plath
Original quotes
From our community writers
Don’t compare her to sunshine and roses when she’s clearly orchids and moonlight.
Melody LeeMelody Lee Oh moonlight, continue to shine on me. As you light up the sky, maybe some peace will come to me.
ShamaShama Stop counting the reasons why they should be loved and start counting the many reasons why you are the one who is worth loving.
Ayaka HaseAyaka Hase Sure, there are oceans and seas and magnificent things – but none of them are you.
L.T. PhoenixL.T. Phoenix I wish you the wildest of dreams.
Kate WestKate West The way you look at me, The way you make me feel whole, The way you make me feel safe, thats poetry to me.
Barbara GianquittoBarbara Gianquitto You cannot leave and have me too I cannot exist in two places at once-when you ask if we can still be friends.
Rupi KaurRupi Kaur Live to be happy not to impress.
Hayley EvansHayley Evans
Meet the writers
More on bore
There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life.
Kurt CobainKurt Cobain The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.
Albert CamusAlbert Camus The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.
Albert CamusAlbert Camus I’ve been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It’s boring.
Morgan FreemanMorgan Freeman Men are always ready to respect anything that bores them.
Marilyn MonroeMarilyn Monroe It’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
Marilyn MonroeMarilyn Monroe Why don’t you bore a hole in yourself and let the sap run out?
Groucho MarxGroucho Marx Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do not need a subject.
A. A. MilneA. A. Milne
Keep exploring
More Poet
