I talk to God but the sky is empty.
SYLVIA PLATHBefore I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
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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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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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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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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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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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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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I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
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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 woke to the sound of rain.
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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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I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give.
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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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There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.
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Please, I want so badly for the good things to happen.
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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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So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
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Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.
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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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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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Tomorrow is another day toward death.
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Don’t let the wicked city get you down.
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