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Day Quotes by Sylvia Plath
- The moon, too, abases her subjects, but in the daytime she is ridiculous. Your dissatisfactions, on the other hand, arrive through the mailslot with loving…
- Backward we traveled to reclaim the day Before we fell, like Icarus, undone; All we find are altars in decay And profane words scrawled black…
- I am terrified by this dark thing That sleeps in me; All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity. Clouds pass and disperse.…
- No day is safe from news of you.
- At this rate, I'd be lucky if I wrote a page a day. Then I knew what the problem was. I needed experience. How could…
- I saw the days of the year stretching ahead like a series of bright, white boxes, and separating one box from another was sleep, like…
- Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of…
- I want to taste and glory in each day, and never be afraid to experience pain; and never shut myself up in a numb core…
- I have done, this year, what I said I would: overcome my fear of facing a blank page day after day, acknowledging myself, in my…
- I opened the door and blinked out into the bright hall. I had the impression it wasn't night and it wasn't day, but some lurid…
- It seemed silly to wash one day when I would only have to wash again the next. It made me tired just to think of…
- I may never be happy, but tonight I am content. Nothing more than an empty house, the warm hazy weariness from a day spent setting…
- I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas, as if whatever it was the pine boughs and…
- …'It always has to end, doesn't it? We always have to separate.' 'Yes,' I said. He was insistent, 'But it doesn't always have to be…
- Sometimes I nursed starfish alive in jam jars of seawater and watched them grow back lost arms. On this day, this awful birthday of otherness,…
- The day I went into physics class it was death.
- I am terrified by this dark thing That sleeps in me; All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity.
- I am afraid of getting older … I am afraid of getting married. Spare me from cooking three meals a day—spare me from the relentless…
- Masks are the order of the day - and the least I can do is cultivate the illusion that I am gay, serene, not hollow…
- Tomorrow is another day toward death.
- Let me not be weak and tell others how bleeding I am internally; how day by day it drips, and gathers, and congeals.
- I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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