The truth comes to me. The truth loves me.
SYLVIA PLATHMy mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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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 want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.
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Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.
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I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.
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If the body is a temple, then tattoos are its stained glass windows.
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There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.
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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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The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
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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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Every day is precious and I feel infinitely sad at this time melting away from me.
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I am what I feel and think and do.
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I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.
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Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.
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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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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.
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