How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I need someone to pour myself into.
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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The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
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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 love my rejection slips. They show me I try.
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A man’s world is different from a woman’s world and a man’s emotions are different from a woman’s emotions and only marriage can bring the two different sets of emotions together properly.
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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I am not cruel, only truthful.
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I woke to the sound of rain.
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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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The truth comes to me. The truth loves me.
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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 felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I’d never seen before in my life.
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Don’t let the wicked city get you down.
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Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it
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Love is the bone and sinew of my curse.
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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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