The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
SYLVIA PLATHI felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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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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Opinions are like orgasms, mine matters most and I really don’t care if you have one.
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I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
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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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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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There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone.
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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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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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Cheers for spring; for life; for a growing soul.
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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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Compared with me, a tree is immortal.
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People or stars Regard me sadly, I disappoint them.
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Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams.
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Only I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself.
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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