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.
SYLVIA PLATHI shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
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I talk to God but the sky is empty.
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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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There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone.
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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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If the body is a temple, then tattoos are its stained glass windows.
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I dream too much, work too little.
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I smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists.
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It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.
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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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A man’s world is different from a woman’s world and a man’s emotions are different from a woman’s emotions and only marriage can bring the two different sets of emotions together properly.
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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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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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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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Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
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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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I have stitched life into me like a rare organ.
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I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.
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Please, I want so badly for the good things to happen.
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I am not cruel, only truthful.
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I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room.
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I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.
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I am too pure for you or anyone.
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Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.
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What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.
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