Compared with me, a tree is immortal.
SYLVIA PLATHI want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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Please, I want so badly for the good things to happen.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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I am myself. That is not enough.
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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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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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Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
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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 have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give.
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When you give someone your whole heart and he doesn’t want it, you cannot take it back. It’s gone forever.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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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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Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.
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Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.
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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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Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.
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