I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.
SYLVIA PLATHI feel terribly vulnerable and ‘not-myself’ when I’m not writing.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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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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Please, I want so badly for the good things to happen.
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I dream too much, work too little.
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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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People or stars Regard me sadly, I disappoint them.
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I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
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Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it
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What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.
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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 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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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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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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The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
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Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.
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