I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
SYLVIA PLATHOne thing, I try to be honest. And what is revealed is often rather hideously unflattering.
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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 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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One thing, I try to be honest. And what is revealed is often rather hideously unflattering.
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I want to taste and glory in each day, and never be afraid to experience pain; and never shut myself up in a numb core of nonfeeling, or stop questioning and criticizing life and take the easy way out.
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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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Intoxicated with madness, I’m in love with my sadness.
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I talk to God but the sky is empty.
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Tomorrow is another day toward death.
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It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.
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Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams.
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The sheets grow heavy as a lecher’s kiss.
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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 find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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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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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone.
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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 am dead to them, even though I once flowered.
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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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Eternity bores me, I never wanted it.
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I felt wise and cynical as all hell.
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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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It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.
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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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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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I dream too much, work too little.
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