I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery – air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, This is what it is to be happy.
SYLVIA PLATHIt is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
-
-
Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
SYLVIA PLATH -
I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.
SYLVIA PLATH -
I feel terribly vulnerable and ‘not-myself’ when I’m not writing.
SYLVIA PLATH -
I’m sarcastic, skeptical, and sometimes callous because I’m still afraid, deep down, of letting myself be hurt.
SYLVIA PLATH -
I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life.
SYLVIA PLATH -
Love life day by day, color by color, touch by touch.
SYLVIA PLATH -
I dream too much, work too little.
SYLVIA PLATH -
It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.
SYLVIA PLATH -
I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.
SYLVIA PLATH -
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.
SYLVIA PLATH -
Love is the bone and sinew of my curse.
SYLVIA PLATH -
Compared with me, a tree is immortal.
SYLVIA PLATH -
It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.
SYLVIA PLATH -
We must be moving, working, making dreams to run toward; the poverty of life without dreams is too horrible to imagine.
SYLVIA PLATH -
I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.
SYLVIA PLATH