Time Quotes by Sylvia Plath

There was a beautiful time...

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…beating time along the edge of thought.

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Like a cat I have nine times to die.

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I was supposed to be having the time of my life.

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“I shall be, in the future, omnipresent.”

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“Let me not be sentimental, let the distance in time give me humor and irony and a shrewd, if loving, eye.”

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“What a man wants is is an arrow into the future and what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots…

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When you are insane, you are busy being insane - all the time.

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August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.

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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 may never be happy, but tonight I am content. At times like this I'd call myself a fool to ask for…

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Do we always grind through the present, doomed to throw a gold haze of fond retrospect over the past?

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And I a smiling woman. I am only thirty. And like the cat I have nine times to die.

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Here I am, a bundle of past recollections and future dreams, knotted up in a reasonably attractive bundle of flesh. I remember…

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What I didn't say was that each time I picked up a German dictionary or a German book, the very sight of…

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Do I like to write? Why? About what? Will I give up and say, "Living and feeding a man's insatiable guts and…

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“…historians will say 'We have a few documents to show how the common people lived at this time. Records lead us to…

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The hardest thing, I think, is to live richly in the present, without letting it be tainted & spoiled out of fear…

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It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing negative - whichever is running…

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She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to…

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“Now I know how people can live without books, without college. (...)and so one goes on living, near the earth. At times…

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It was like the first time i saw a cadaver. For weeks afterward the cadavers head, or what was left of it…

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Pretty soon, the only doubt in my mind was the precise time and method of committing suicide. The only alternative I could…

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For a time, I believed not in God nor Santa Claus, but in mermaids. They seemed as logical and possible to me…

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If you have no past or no future, which, after all, is all that the present is made of, why then you…

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And so I rehabilitate myself - staying up late this Friday night in spite of vowing to go to bed early, because…

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I hadn't, at the last moment, felt like washing off the two diagonal lines of dried blood that marked my cheeks. They…

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Why am I obsessed with the idea I can justify myself by getting manuscripts published? Is it an escape-an excuse for any…

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The thing about writing is not to talk, but to do it; no matter how bad or even mediocre it is, the…

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“Being born a woman is my awful tragedy. From the moment I was conceived I was doomed to sprout breasts and ovaries…

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“There are times when a feeling of expectancy comes to me, as if something is there, beneath the surface of my understanding,…

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“There is no living being on earth at this moment except myself. I could walk down the halls, and empty rooms would…

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I can't deceive myself out of the bare stark realization that no matter how enthusiastic you are, no matter how sure that…

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“You are twenty. You are not dead, although you were dead. The girl who died. And was resurrected. Children. Witches. Magic. Symbols.…

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“There is still time to veer, to sally forth, knapsack on back, for unknown hills over which…only the wind knows what lies.…

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“I seem to grow more acutely conscious of the swift passage of time as I grow older. When I was small, days…

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“God, I scream for time to let go, to write, to think. But no. I have to exercise my memory in little…

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When you are insane, you are busy being insane-all the time ... when I was crazy, that was all I was.

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What a man is is an arrow into the future, and what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off…

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“I plummeted down past the zigzaggers, the students, the experts, through year after year of doubleness and smiles and compromise, into my…

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