Eternity bores me, I never wanted it.
SYLVIA PLATHI want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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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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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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I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.
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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 don’t care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual.
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A man’s world is different from a woman’s world and a man’s emotions are different from a woman’s emotions and only marriage can bring the two different sets of emotions together properly.
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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 took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.
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I smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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Tomorrow is another day toward death.
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Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning.
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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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Love life day by day, color by color, touch by touch.
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Only I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself.
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