We must be moving, working, making dreams to run toward; the poverty of life without dreams is too horrible to imagine.
SYLVIA PLATHPerhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist.
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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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I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
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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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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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I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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I hate handing over money to people for doing what I could just as easily do myself, it makes me nervous.
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I am myself. That is not enough.
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I knew you’d decide to be all right again.
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Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.
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I woke to the sound of rain.
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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.
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I like people too much or not at all. I’ve got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.
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Don’t let the wicked city get you down.
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