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.
SYLVIA PLATHI don’t care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
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I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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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.
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It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.
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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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The sheets grow heavy as a lecher’s kiss.
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Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.
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How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I need someone to pour myself into.
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I have stitched life into me like a rare organ.
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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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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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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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What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.
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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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