Sylvia Plath Quotes

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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Black Broken Heart Depression Eyes Feeling Hollow Silence
Compared with me, a tree is immortal.
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Comparison Immortal Tree
I dream too much, work too little.
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Dreams Work Writing
I don’t care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual.
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Care Depression Feeling Mutual Quite
Cheers for spring; for life; for a growing soul.
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Cheer Growth Life Positive Soul Spring
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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Active Choice Constant Happiness Mad Mood Passive Sad
How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I need someone to pour myself into.
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Body Cling Confidence Loneliness Myself Need Soul Trust
I felt wise and cynical as all hell.
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Cynical Feeling Hell Wise
I am myself. That is not enough.
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Enough Inspirational Myself Self Love Women Empowerment
Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams.
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Body Dreams Feminism Giving Mind Thinking
I want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.
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Attitude Be Yourself Different Girl Imporant Same
Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.
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Feminism Goodness Live Love Sentence
Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it
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Cry Lie Love Shadow
Please, I want so badly for the good things to happen.
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Depression Goodness Happen Please Struggle
Opinions are like orgasms, mine matters most and I really don’t care if you have one.
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Care Matter Opinion Orgasms
I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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Capable Desperate Love Obvious Want
If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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Deep Disappointment Expectation Relationship
I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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Always Christmas Disappointment Feeling
The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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Abstract Concrete Kill One Liner Save
I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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Absolute Finding Fulfillemnt Myself Poem Writing
I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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Capable Desperate Love Obvious Want
If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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Deep Disappointment Expectation Relationship
I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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Always Christmas Disappointment Feeling
The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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Abstract Concrete Kill One Liner Save
I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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Absolute Finding Fulfillemnt Myself Poem Writing
It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.
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Depression Safe Touch World
I’m sarcastic, skeptical, and sometimes callous because I’m still afraid, deep down, of letting myself be hurt.
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Afraid Depression Hurt Myself Sarcastic

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