Sylvia Plath Quotes

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• You ask me why I spend my life writing? Do I find entertainment? Is it worthwhile? Above all, does it pay? If not, then, is…
• It was my last act of love (first words to her mother in the hospital after her first major suicide attempt)
• God, if ever I have come close to wanting to commit suicide, it is now, with the groggy sleepless blood dragging through my veins, and…
• The body is amazingly stubborn when it comes to sacrificing itself to the annihilating directions of the mind.
• Last year a friend went dark in a nervous city alone, the sea flashing against his glasses, the sea sorted out at last in his…
• I guess they call it suicide, but I'm to full to swallow my pride I can't stand losing you The Police Dying is an art,…
• One night she hid the pink cotton scarf from her raincoat in the pillowcase when the nurse came around to lock up her drawers and…
• The woman is perfected. Her dead Body wears the smile of accomplishment.
• Doing all the little tricky things it takes to grow up, step by step, into an anxious and unsettling world.
• Tomorrow I will curse the dawn, but there will be other, earlier nights, and the dawns will be no longer hell laid out in alarms…
• You have lost all delight in life. Ahead is a large array of blind alleys. You are half-deliberately, half-desperately cutting off your grip on creative…
• Look at that ugly dead mask here and do not forget it. It is a chalk mask with dead dry poison behind it, like the…
• ... I keep wanting to crawl back into the womb ...
• ... you looked around and saw everybody either married or busy and happy and thinking and being creative, and you felt scared, sick, lethargic, worst…
• A terrible depression yesterday. Visions of my life petering out into a kind of soft-brained stupor from lack of use.
• Very depressed today. Unable to write a thing. Menacing gods. I feel outcast on a cold star, unable to feel anything but an awful helpless…
• When you are insane, you are busy being insane-all the time ... when I was crazy, that was all I was.
• When you give someone your whole heart and he doesn't want it, you cannot take it back. It's gone forever.
• This seemed a dreary and wasted life for a girl with fifteen years of straight A's, but I knew that's what marriage was like, because…
• So I kiss him, and there is the great dark sea ahead...

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