I smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists.
SYLVIA PLATHAfter all, we are nothing more or less than we choose to reveal.
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 love my rejection slips. They show me I try.
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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 woke to the sound of rain.
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The truth comes to me. The truth loves me.
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It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.
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The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
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Everything in life is writable.
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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 feel terribly vulnerable and ‘not-myself’ when I’m not writing.
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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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I talk to God but the sky is empty.
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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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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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Compared with me, a tree is immortal.
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Wear your heart on your skin in this life.
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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 have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.
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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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Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams.
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Intoxicated with madness, I’m in love with my sadness.
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Every day is precious and I feel infinitely sad at this time melting away from me.
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Only I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself.
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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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