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.
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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Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.
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I write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still.
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The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
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I feel terribly vulnerable and ‘not-myself’ when I’m not writing.
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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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 felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.
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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 am dead to them, even though I once flowered.
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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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I am what I feel and think and do.
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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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People or stars Regard me sadly, I disappoint them.
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I want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.
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I knew you’d decide to be all right again.
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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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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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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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Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.
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After all, we are nothing more or less than we choose to reveal.
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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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One thing, I try to be honest. And what is revealed is often rather hideously unflattering.
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I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
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I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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