The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.
SYLVIA PLATHIt is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.
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I knew you’d decide to be all right again.
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I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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Tomorrow is another day toward death.
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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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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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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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Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams.
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I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
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Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.
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I don’t care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual.
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The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
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Compared with me, a tree is immortal.
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I felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I’d never seen before in my life.
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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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