The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
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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So learn about life. Cut yourself a big slice with the silver server, a big slice of pie. Open your eyes. Let life happen.
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Please, I want so badly for the good things to happen.
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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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Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.
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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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The truth comes to me. The truth loves me.
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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 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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Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.
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Wear your heart on your skin in this life.
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Every day is precious and I feel infinitely sad at this time melting away from me.
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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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Compared with me, a tree is immortal.
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I feel terribly vulnerable and ‘not-myself’ when I’m not writing.
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People or stars Regard me sadly, I disappoint them.
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