I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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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See, the darkness is leaking from the cracks. I cannot contain it. I cannot contain my life.
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Cheers for spring; for life; for a growing soul.
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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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I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.
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I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.
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Every day is precious and I feel infinitely sad at this time melting away from me.
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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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Don’t let the wicked city get you down.
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One thing, I try to be honest. And what is revealed is often rather hideously unflattering.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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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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Perhaps some day I’ll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.
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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 love life. But it is hard and I have so much, so very much to learn.
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Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.
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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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We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.
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I knew you’d decide to be all right again.
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There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone.
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Tomorrow is another day toward death.
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It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.
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Opinions are like orgasms, mine matters most and I really don’t care if you have one.
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I am too pure for you or anyone.
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I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.
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It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.
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Wear your heart on your skin in this life.
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