Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.
SYLVIA PLATHWhat horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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Everything in life is writable.
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I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
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There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room.
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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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I write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still.
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Every day is precious and I feel infinitely sad at this time melting away from me.
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I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.
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I knew you’d decide to be all right again.
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Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.
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Eternity bores me, I never wanted it.
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A man’s world is different from a woman’s world and a man’s emotions are different from a woman’s emotions and only marriage can bring the two different sets of emotions together properly.
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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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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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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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