More from Sylvia Plath
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 PlathSylvia Plath 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.
Sylvia PlathSylvia 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
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Juana GarciaJuana Garcia I would rather shoot my arrows than keep them in my bow, I would rather risk it all than risk nothing at all.
ShamaShama I wish I knew then all of the things I know now that I am enough.
TMCTMC I feel like I’m on fire, fighting for a moment on respite – I’m not placing bets.
M.K. StandbyM.K. Standby I found him in all the chaos, and that was when my world started making sense again.
MoomerMoomer The judgement that people cast on you for how you do or do not appear is nothing more than just a projection of their own wounds.
Taj AroraTaj Arora Be grateful for what you have now, even if it’s not everything you wanted.
Sonia SabnisSonia Sabnis It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin
More on life
How do you go from where you are to where you wanna be? And I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal. And you have to be willing to work for it.
Jim ValvanoJim Valvano Of the five most important things in life, health is first, education or knowledge is second, and wealth is third. I forget the other two.
Chuck BerryChuck Berry The aim of life is no more to control the mind, but to develop it harmoniously; not to achieve salvation here after, but to make the best use of it here below
Bhagat SinghBhagat Singh I don’t see myself as anything. I just wander around getting on with my life.
Michael CaineMichael Caine You’re called a genius by people, and then your whole life you become the part.
Brian WilsonBrian Wilson Nature taking its course – hunter and prey, the endless circle of life and death.
Stephenie MeyerStephenie Meyer My whole life is in between your lips, kiss me more.
Doua HreicheDoua Hreiche So many people are frightened to take a chance in life and there’s so many chances you have to take.
Jimmy PageJimmy Page
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