Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.
SYLVIA PLATHI write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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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.
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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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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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I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
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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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I am myself. That is not enough.
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So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
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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 felt wise and cynical as all hell.
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So learn about life. Cut yourself a big slice with the silver server, a big slice of pie. Open your eyes. Let life happen.
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The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.
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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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Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning.
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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