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Illness Quotes by Sylvia Plath
- 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.
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