Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.
SYLVIA PLATHI’m sarcastic, skeptical, and sometimes callous because I’m still afraid, deep down, of letting myself be hurt.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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The hardest thing, I think, is to live richly in the present, without letting it be tainted and spoiled out of fear for the future or regret for a badly-managed past.
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Only I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself.
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I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.
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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 dream too much, work too little.
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I talk to God but the sky is empty.
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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.
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Sometimes I feel like I’m not solid. I’m hollow. There’s nothing behind my eyes. I’m a negative of a person. All I want is blackness, blackness and silence.
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People or stars Regard me sadly, I disappoint them.
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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.
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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 am what I feel and think and do.
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I smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists.
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I am too pure for you or anyone.
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