If the body is a temple, then tattoos are its stained glass windows.
SYLVIA PLATHI want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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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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My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.
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I talk to God but the sky is empty.
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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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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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I am what I feel and think and do.
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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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See, the darkness is leaking from the cracks. I cannot contain it. I cannot contain my life.
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I love life. But it is hard and I have so much, so very much to learn.
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I dream too much, work too little.
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Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.
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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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As a poet, one lives a bit on air. I always like someone who can teach me something practical.
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It’s a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It’s much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all.
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Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.
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