I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
SYLVIA PLATHIf you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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I dream too much, work too little.
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I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.
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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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There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone.
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Only I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself.
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I woke to the sound of rain.
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I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
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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’m sarcastic, skeptical, and sometimes callous because I’m still afraid, deep down, of letting myself be hurt.
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I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery – air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, This is what it is to be happy.
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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 want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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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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I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.
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See, the darkness is leaking from the cracks. I cannot contain it. I cannot contain my life.
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