Intoxicated with madness, I’m in love with my sadness.
SYLVIA PLATHI want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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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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I smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists.
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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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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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Tomorrow is another day toward death.
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So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
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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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The hardest thing, I think, is to live richly in the present, without letting it be tainted and spoiled out of fear for the future or regret for a badly-managed past.
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I have stitched life into me like a rare organ.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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Perhaps some day I’ll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.
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There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.
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I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.
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As a poet, one lives a bit on air. I always like someone who can teach me something practical.
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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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