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.
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 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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See, the darkness is leaking from the cracks. I cannot contain it. I cannot contain my life.
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When you give someone your whole heart and he doesn’t want it, you cannot take it back. It’s gone forever.
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I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life.
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Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it
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It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.
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Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams.
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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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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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I feel terribly vulnerable and ‘not-myself’ when I’m not writing.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.
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One thing, I try to be honest. And what is revealed is often rather hideously unflattering.
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The sheets grow heavy as a lecher’s kiss.
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