The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
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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Don’t let the wicked city get you down.
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Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.
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I talk to God but the sky is empty.
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Eternity bores me, I never wanted it.
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I felt wise and cynical as all hell.
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Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children.
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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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I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.
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I woke to the sound of rain.
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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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When you give someone your whole heart and he doesn’t want it, you cannot take it back. It’s gone forever.
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Compared with me, a tree is immortal.
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There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone.
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I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.
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Wear your heart on your skin in this life.
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