Please, I want so badly for the good things to happen.
SYLVIA PLATHWe must be moving, working, making dreams to run toward; the poverty of life without dreams is too horrible to imagine.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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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.
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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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As a poet, one lives a bit on air. I always like someone who can teach me something practical.
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Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.
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Compared with me, a tree is immortal.
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So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
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I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
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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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Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.
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Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning.
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I woke to the sound of rain.
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Tomorrow is another day toward death.
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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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Opinions are like orgasms, mine matters most and I really don’t care if you have one.
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What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.
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