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 PLATHIt is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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I felt wise and cynical as all hell.
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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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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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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.
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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 felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I’d never seen before in my life.
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I am too pure for you or anyone.
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So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
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I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
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Intoxicated with madness, I’m in love with my sadness.
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I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.
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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 find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist.
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