My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.
SYLVIA PLATHI knew you’d decide to be all right again.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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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 find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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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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The truth comes to me. The truth loves me.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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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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The sheets grow heavy as a lecher’s kiss.
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Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.
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Love is the bone and sinew of my curse.
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Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.
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After all, we are nothing more or less than we choose to reveal.
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I’m sarcastic, skeptical, and sometimes callous because I’m still afraid, deep down, of letting myself be hurt.
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I like people too much or not at all. I’ve got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.
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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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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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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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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 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 must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.
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There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone.
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I am myself. That is not enough.
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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I hate handing over money to people for doing what I could just as easily do myself, it makes me nervous.
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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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