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 PLATHIt’s a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It’s much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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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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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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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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Opinions are like orgasms, mine matters most and I really don’t care if you have one.
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We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.
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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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Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.
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I don’t care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual.
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The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
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There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone.
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I dream too much, work too little.
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After all, we are nothing more or less than we choose to reveal.
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