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.
SYLVIA PLATHDying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.
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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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I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.
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I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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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 have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give.
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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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Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it
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Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children.
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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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Wear your heart on your skin in this life.
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Intoxicated with madness, I’m in love with my sadness.
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I write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still.
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I want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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