I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
SYLVIA PLATHHour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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I smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists.
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The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.
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So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
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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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What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.
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Eternity bores me, I never wanted it.
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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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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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She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist.
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Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams.
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Don’t let the wicked city get you down.
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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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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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Love life day by day, color by color, touch by touch.
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