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.
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 write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still.
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I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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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 woke to the sound of rain.
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.
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Love life day by day, color by color, touch by touch.
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Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.
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Cheers for spring; for life; for a growing soul.
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The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.
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Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.
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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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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 felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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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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Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
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I am myself. That is not enough.
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I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.
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And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
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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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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.
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There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.
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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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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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There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone.
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