I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
SYLVIA PLATHIf the body is a temple, then tattoos are its stained glass windows.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
-
-
I like people too much or not at all. I’ve got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.
SYLVIA PLATH -
Wear your heart on your skin in this life.
SYLVIA PLATH -
Tomorrow is another day toward death.
SYLVIA PLATH -
The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
SYLVIA PLATH -
I hate handing over money to people for doing what I could just as easily do myself, it makes me nervous.
SYLVIA PLATH -
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.
SYLVIA PLATH -
The truth comes to me. The truth loves me.
SYLVIA PLATH -
Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.
SYLVIA PLATH -
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.
SYLVIA PLATH -
Everything in life is writable.
SYLVIA PLATH -
Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children.
SYLVIA PLATH -
If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
SYLVIA PLATH -
I have stitched life into me like a rare organ.
SYLVIA PLATH -
So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
SYLVIA PLATH -
There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.
SYLVIA PLATH -
It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.
SYLVIA PLATH -
See, the darkness is leaking from the cracks. I cannot contain it. I cannot contain my life.
SYLVIA PLATH -
Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.
SYLVIA PLATH -
Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it
SYLVIA PLATH -
Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.
SYLVIA PLATH -
Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
SYLVIA PLATH -
After all, we are nothing more or less than we choose to reveal.
SYLVIA PLATH -
I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
SYLVIA PLATH -
One thing, I try to be honest. And what is revealed is often rather hideously unflattering.
SYLVIA PLATH -
I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.
SYLVIA PLATH -
The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.
SYLVIA PLATH