When you give someone your whole heart and he doesn’t want it, you cannot take it back. It’s gone forever.
SYLVIA PLATHSo much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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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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Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.
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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 dream too much, work too little.
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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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My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.
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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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Eternity bores me, I never wanted it.
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What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.
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I am myself. That is not enough.
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Tomorrow is another day toward death.
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I feel terribly vulnerable and ‘not-myself’ when I’m not writing.
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The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
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It’s a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It’s much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all.
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I smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists.
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