When you give someone your whole heart and he doesn’t want it, you cannot take it back. It’s gone forever.
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 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 have stitched life into me like a rare organ.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery – air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, This is what it is to be happy.
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I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.
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Only I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself.
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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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Cheers for spring; for life; for a growing soul.
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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 knew you’d decide to be all right again.
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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 terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
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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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There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room.
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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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