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.
SYLVIA PLATHI have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.
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The sheets grow heavy as a lecher’s kiss.
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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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A man’s world is different from a woman’s world and a man’s emotions are different from a woman’s emotions and only marriage can bring the two different sets of emotions together properly.
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Tomorrow is another day toward death.
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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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The constant struggle in mature life, I think, is to accept the necessity of tragedy and conflict, and not to try to escape to some falsely simple solution which does not include these more somber complexities.
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I hate handing over money to people for doing what I could just as easily do myself, it makes me nervous.
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Only I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself.
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It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.
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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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Wear your heart on your skin in this life.
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I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.
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I smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists.
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I dream too much, work too little.
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Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.
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I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.
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I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life.
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Don’t let the wicked city get you down.
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There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.
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So learn about life. Cut yourself a big slice with the silver server, a big slice of pie. Open your eyes. Let life happen.
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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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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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I talk to God but the sky is empty.
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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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It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.
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