I am myself. That is not enough.
SYLVIA PLATHI 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.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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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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I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
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How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I need someone to pour myself into.
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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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Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it
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Only I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself.
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Tomorrow is another day toward death.
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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The constant struggle in mature life, I think, is to accept the necessity of tragedy and conflict, and not to try to escape to some falsely simple solution which does not include these more somber complexities.
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Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children.
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I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.
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Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
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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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I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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