If the body is a temple, then tattoos are its stained glass windows.
SYLVIA PLATHSometimes 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.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.
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The truth comes to me. The truth loves me.
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Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.
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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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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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Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.
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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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Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.
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Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.
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One thing, I try to be honest. And what is revealed is often rather hideously unflattering.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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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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Only I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself.
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