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.
SYLVIA PLATHI have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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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 find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.
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I’m sarcastic, skeptical, and sometimes callous because I’m still afraid, deep down, of letting myself be hurt.
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I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.
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I want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life.
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Love is the bone and sinew of my curse.
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I have stitched life into me like a rare organ.
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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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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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One thing, I try to be honest. And what is revealed is often rather hideously unflattering.
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I talk to God but the sky is empty.
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I feel terribly vulnerable and ‘not-myself’ when I’m not writing.
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I am myself. That is not enough.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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