I want to taste and glory in each day, and never be afraid to experience pain; and never shut myself up in a numb core of nonfeeling, or stop questioning and criticizing life and take the easy way out.
SYLVIA PLATHIt is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.
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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 hate handing over money to people for doing what I could just as easily do myself, it makes me nervous.
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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 don’t care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual.
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I smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists.
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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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I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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I have stitched life into me like a rare organ.
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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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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 write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still.
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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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Everything in life is writable.
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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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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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After all, we are nothing more or less than we choose to reveal.
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Compared with me, a tree is immortal.
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People or stars Regard me sadly, I disappoint them.
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Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.
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The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own 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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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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There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone.
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I talk to God but the sky is empty.
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