Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.
SYLVIA PLATHPerhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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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 am myself. That is not enough.
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It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.
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Love life day by day, color by color, touch by touch.
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I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
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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.
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It’s a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It’s much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all.
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The hardest thing, I think, is to live richly in the present, without letting it be tainted and spoiled out of fear for the future or regret for a badly-managed past.
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I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.
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Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.
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I hate handing over money to people for doing what I could just as easily do myself, it makes me nervous.
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I love life. But it is hard and I have so much, so very much to learn.
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I woke to the sound of rain.
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How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I need someone to pour myself into.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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