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.
SYLVIA PLATHWhen you give someone your whole heart and he doesn’t want it, you cannot take it back. It’s gone forever.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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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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I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.
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I smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists.
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If the body is a temple, then tattoos are its stained glass windows.
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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 dream too much, work too little.
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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.
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It’s a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It’s much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all.
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Opinions are like orgasms, mine matters most and I really don’t care if you have one.
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We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.
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I am myself. That is not enough.
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I want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.
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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 dead to them, even though I once flowered.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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