I smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists.
SYLVIA PLATHAs a poet, one lives a bit on air. I always like someone who can teach me something practical.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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I talk to God but the sky is empty.
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The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.
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What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.
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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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Compared with me, a tree is immortal.
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I felt wise and cynical as all hell.
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Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
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Tomorrow is another day toward death.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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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 am dead to them, even though I once flowered.
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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 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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The truth comes to me. The truth loves me.
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I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
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