I knew you’d decide to be all right again.
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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See, the darkness is leaking from the cracks. I cannot contain it. I cannot contain my life.
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Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.
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There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.
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We must be moving, working, making dreams to run toward; the poverty of life without dreams is too horrible to imagine.
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I am myself. That is not enough.
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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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Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children.
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I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give.
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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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If the body is a temple, then tattoos are its stained glass windows.
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The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.
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I didn’t want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn’t know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of my throat and I’d cry for a week.
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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’m sarcastic, skeptical, and sometimes callous because I’m still afraid, deep down, of letting myself be hurt.
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I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.
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