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Felt Quotes by Sylvia Plath
- 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…
- ... you looked around and saw everybody either married or busy and happy and thinking and being creative, and you felt scared, sick, lethargic, worst…
- As from a star I saw, coldly and soberly, the separateness of everything. I felt the wall of my skin; I am I. That stone…
- I felt like a racehorse in a world without racetracks or a champion college footballer suddenly confronted by Wall Street and a business suit, his…
- I felt dumb and subdued. Every time I tried to concentrate, my mind glided off, like a skater, into a large empty space, and pirouetted…
- I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.
- All the heat and fear had purged itself. I felt surprisingly at peace. The bell jar hung suspended a few feet above my head. I…
- The only thing I could think of was turkey neck and turkey gizzards and I felt very depressed.
- I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo.
- It was like the first time i saw a cadaver. For weeks afterward the cadavers head, or what was left of it - floated up…
- 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 don't know how long I kept at it... I felt reasonably safe, streched out on the floor, and lay quite still. It didn't seem…
- I felt the first man I slept with must be intelligent, so I could respect him.
- I felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I'd never seen before in my life.
- 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…
- I lay in that tub on the seventeenth floor of this hotel for-women-only, high up over the jazz and push of New York, for near…
- I felt very low. I had been unmasked only that morning by Jay Cee herself, and I felt now that all the uncomfortable suspicions I…
- What do you have in mind after you graduate?" What I always thought I had in mind was getting some big scholarship to graduate school…
- I felt the mask crumple, the great poisonous store of corrosive ashes begin to spew out of my mouth.
- As I lay on my back in bed staring up at the blank, white ceiling the stillness seemed to grow bigger and bigger until I…
- I felt dull and flat and full of shattered visions.
- I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
- I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of sceneryair, mountains, trees, people. I thought, This is what it is to be happy.
- I felt wise and cynical as all hell.
More Felt Quotes
- It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one… — Neil Armstrong
- You could tell 'The Handmaid's Tale' from a male point of view. People have mistakenly felt that the women are oppressed, but… — Margaret Atwood
- Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety,… — Sri Aurobindo
- Respect for right conduct is felt by every body. — Jane Austen
- I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults. On the… — Teresa of Avila
- When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to… — Teresa of Avila
- Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be… — Francis Bacon
- I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously… — Abigail Adams
- Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in? — Nicholson Baker
- It was dripping and, you know, and there was a whole line of cameras and microphones. I felt like - you remember… — Jim Bakker
- When I died my hair red the first time, I felt as if it was what nature intended. I have been accused… — Amy Adams
- No, only disappointment in myself on those occasions I didn't manage to rise to the occasion as I felt I should've done.… — Christian Bale