People Quotes by Sylvia Plath

Everything people did seemed so silly, because they only died in the end.

— Sylvia Plath

I like people too much or not at all.

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People or stars Regard me sadly, I disappoint them.

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You walked in, laughing, tears welling confused, mingling in your throat. How can you be so many women to so many people,…

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I love the people,' I said. 'I have room in me for love, and for ever so many little lives.

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I didn't really see why people should look at me. Plenty of people looked queerer than I did.

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I like people, but to learn about one individual always appeals to me more than anything.

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I think writers are the most narcissistic people. Well, I musn't say this, I like many of them, a great many of…

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I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be…

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How can you be so many women to so many strange people, oh you strange girl?

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If only a group of people were more important to me than the idea of a Novel, I might begin a novel.

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Is to throw together events from my own life, fictionalizing to add color—it’s a pot boiler really, but I think it will…

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I have this demon who wants me to run away screaming if I am going to be flawed, fallible. It wants me…

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What is my life for and what am I going to do with it? I don't know and I'm afraid. I can…

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Sunday-the doctor's paradise! Doctors at country clubs, doctors at the seaside, doctors with mistresses, doctors with wives, doctors in church, doctors in…

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Life was not to be sitting in hot amorphic leisure in my backyard idly writing or not writing, as the spirit moved…

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There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only…

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I want to force myself again and again to leave the warmth and security of static situations and move into the world…

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If I have not the power to put myself in the place of other people, but must be continually burrowing inward, I…

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... you looked around and saw everybody either married or busy and happy and thinking and being creative, and you felt scared,…

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I lay in that tub on the seventeenth floor of this hotel for-women-only, high up over the jazz and push of New…

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“So, now I shall talk every night. To myself. To the moon. I shall walk, as I did tonight, jealous of my…

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I do feel that now and I feel that this development of recording poems, of speaking poems at readings, of having records…

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I liked looking on at other people in crucial situations. If there was a road accident or a street fight or a…

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I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow, the million moving shapes and cul-de-sacs of shadow. There was…

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…* to know a lot of people I love pieces of, and to want to synthesize those pieces in me somehow, be…

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The lyric abstrusities of Auden ring mystically down the circular canals of my ear and it begins to look like snow. The…

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Secretly, in studies and attics and schoolrooms all over America, people must be writing.

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Then I decided I would spend the summer writing a novel. That would fix a lot of people.

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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…

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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 need the reality of other people, work, to fulfill myself. Must never become a mere mother and housewife.

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Sometimes I feel so stupid and dull and uncreative that I am amazed when people tell me differently.

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“Then it hit me and I just blurted, 'I like people too much or not at all. I've got to go down…

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I pass by people, grazing them on the edges, and it bothers me. I've got to admire someone to really like them…

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There is something suspect, especially in America, about people who don't have ten-year plans for a career or at least a regular…

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The only reason I remembered this play was because it had a mad person in it, and everything I had ever read…

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I don't see,' I said, 'how people stand being old. Your insides all dry up. When you're young you're so self-reliant. You…

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I love people. Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his collection. Every story, every incident, every bit…

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... stop trying to get me to write about 'decent courageous people' -- read the Ladies' Home Journal for those! ... I…

— Sylvia Plath