Intoxicated with madness, I’m in love with my sadness.
SYLVIA PLATHI felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery – air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, This is what it is to be happy.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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After all, we are nothing more or less than we choose to reveal.
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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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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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I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.
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Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.
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I want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.
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I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.
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The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
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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.
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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 felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I’d never seen before in my life.
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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 what I feel and think and do.
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