Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
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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Intoxicated with madness, I’m in love with my sadness.
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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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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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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Eternity bores me, I never wanted it.
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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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Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.
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I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.
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Everything in life is writable.
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Every day is precious and I feel infinitely sad at this time melting away from me.
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I want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.
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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 smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists.
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I talk to God but the sky is empty.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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