The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
SYLVIA PLATHAnd by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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I like people too much or not at all. I’ve got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.
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Tomorrow is another day toward death.
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Intoxicated with madness, I’m in love with my sadness.
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Wear your heart on your skin in this life.
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I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.
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Only I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself.
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I am too pure for you or anyone.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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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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My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.
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Eternity bores me, I never wanted it.
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It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.
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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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Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.
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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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