The constant struggle in mature life, I think, is to accept the necessity of tragedy and conflict, and not to try to escape to some falsely simple solution which does not include these more somber complexities.
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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It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.
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We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.
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Love life day by day, color by color, touch by touch.
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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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Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.
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Compared with me, a tree is immortal.
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.
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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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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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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams.
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After all, we are nothing more or less than we choose to reveal.
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I feel terribly vulnerable and ‘not-myself’ when I’m not writing.
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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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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 write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still.
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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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I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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I have stitched life into me like a rare organ.
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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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Eternity bores me, I never wanted it.
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Please, I want so badly for the good things to happen.
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I am too pure for you or anyone.
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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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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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