I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
SYLVIA PLATHThe silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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People or stars Regard me sadly, I disappoint them.
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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 desire the things that will destroy me in the end.
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Please, I want so badly for the good things to happen.
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I am not cruel, only truthful.
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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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The truth comes to me. The truth loves me.
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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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And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
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Only I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself.
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Cheers for spring; for life; for a growing soul.
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The sheets grow heavy as a lecher’s kiss.
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I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
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After all, we are nothing more or less than we choose to reveal.
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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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