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Dead Quotes by Sylvia Plath
- The woman is perfected. Her dead Body wears the smile of accomplishment.
- 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 shall never get out of this! There are two of me now: This new absolutely white person and the old yellow one, And the…
- On the train: staring hypnotized at the blackness outside the window, feeling the incomparable rhythmic language of the wheels, clacking out nursery rhymes, summing up…
- A bad dream.To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is the bad dream.A bad dream.I…
- Nothing is real except the present, and already, I feel the weight of centuries smothering me. Some girl a hundred years ago once lived as…
- The lyric abstrusities of Auden ring mystically down the circular canals of my ear and it begins to look like snow. The good gray conservative…
- I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
- To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.
- With me, the present is forever, and forever is always shifting, flowing, melting. This second is life. And when it is gone it is dead.…
- I had always imagined myself hitching up on to my elbows on the delivery table after it was all over - dead white, of course,…
- I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.
- I hadn't, at the last moment, felt like washing off the two diagonal lines of dried blood that marked my cheeks. They seemed touching, and…
- I didn’t want any flowers, I only wanted To lie with my hands turned up and be utterly empty. How free it is, you have…
- I had removed my patent leather shoes after a while, for they foundered badly in the sand. It pleased me to think they would be…
- I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my lids and all is born again. (I think I made you up…
- ..I fancied you'd return the way you said, But I grow old and I forget your name. (I think I made you up inside my…
- …'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…
- Antoine St. Exupery once mourned the loss of a man and the secret treasures that he held inside him. I loved Exupery; I will read…
- Perhaps you considered yourself an oracle, Mouthpiece of the dead, or of some god or other. Thirty years now I have labored To dredge the…
- Not easy to state the change you made. If I'm alive now, I was dead, Though, like a stone, unbothered by it.
- I cannot life for life itself: but for the words which stay the flux. My life, I feel, will not be lived until there are…
More Dead Quotes
- Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in… — Aristophanes
- The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. — Aristotle
- Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I'd like to see the giant squid. Nobody has ever seen one. I could tell you people who have spent thousands and… — David Attenborough
- Canada was built on dead beavers. — Margaret Atwood
- Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will… — Margaret Atwood
- The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to… — Sri Aurobindo
- It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on… — Paul Auster
- The dead of midnight is the noon of thought. — Anna Letitia Barbauld
- I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death. — Francis Bacon