I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
SYLVIA PLATHI like people too much or not at all. I’ve got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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The constant struggle in mature life, I think, is to accept the necessity of tragedy and conflict, and not to try to escape to some falsely simple solution which does not include these more somber complexities.
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I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.
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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 not cruel, only truthful.
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Every day is precious and I feel infinitely sad at this time melting away from me.
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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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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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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 dead to them, even though I once flowered.
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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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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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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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Love is the bone and sinew of my curse.
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I smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists.
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