I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life.
SYLVIA PLATHI 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.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.
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What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.
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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 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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Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
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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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Opinions are like orgasms, mine matters most and I really don’t care if you have one.
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Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning.
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I woke to the sound of rain.
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Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.
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Compared with me, a tree is immortal.
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Tomorrow is another day toward death.
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It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.
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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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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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