Every day is precious and I feel infinitely sad at this time melting away from me.
SYLVIA PLATHIf the body is a temple, then tattoos are its stained glass windows.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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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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I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.
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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 woke to the sound of rain.
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I am not cruel, only truthful.
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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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Compared with me, a tree is immortal.
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Sometimes 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.
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We must be moving, working, making dreams to run toward; the poverty of life without dreams is too horrible to imagine.
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I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.
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Wear your heart on your skin in this life.
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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.
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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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See, the darkness is leaking from the cracks. I cannot contain it. I cannot contain my life.
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