I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
SYLVIA PLATHSometimes 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.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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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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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.
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I knew you’d decide to be all right again.
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My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.
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If the body is a temple, then tattoos are its stained glass windows.
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I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.
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Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.
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Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.
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Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.
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Wear your heart on your skin in this life.
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I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.
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