I hate handing over money to people for doing what I could just as easily do myself, it makes me nervous.
SYLVIA PLATHI am too pure for you or anyone.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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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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I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.
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Compared with me, a tree is immortal.
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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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Cheers for spring; for life; for a growing soul.
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There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone.
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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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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 smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists.
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I am too pure for you or anyone.
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The sheets grow heavy as a lecher’s kiss.
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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 want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.
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I don’t care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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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 want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.
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It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.
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I love life. But it is hard and I have so much, so very much to learn.
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Every day is precious and I feel infinitely sad at this time melting away from me.
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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 have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.
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There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room.
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Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children.
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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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The truth comes to me. The truth loves me.
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