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Life Quotes by Sylvia Plath
- 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…
- 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…
- A terrible depression yesterday. Visions of my life petering out into a kind of soft-brained stupor from lack of use.
- 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…
- Why the hell are we conditioned into the smooth strawberry-and-cream Mother-Goose-world, Alice-in-Wonderland fable, only to be broken on the wheel as we grow older and…
- You have to be able to make a real creative life for Yourself, before you can expect anyone Else to provide one ready-made for you.
- Read widely of others' experiences, even if it'd be more comfortable to snuggle back in the comforting cotton-wool of blissful ignorance.
- We stayed at home to write, to consolidate our outstretched selves.
- See, the darkness is leaking from the cracks. I cannot contain it. I cannot contain my life.
- I feel self-repressed again. The old fall disease. Where is my willpower? The idea of a life gets in the way of my life...I dream…
- We must be moving, working, making dreams to run toward; the poverty of life without dreams is too horrible to imagine.
- Everything in life is writable...
- I have to live my life, and it is the only one I’ll ever have.
- Is to throw together events from my own life, fictionalizing to add color—it’s a pot boiler really, but I think it will show how isolated…
- Cheers for spring; for life; for a growing soul.
- Outcast on a cold star, unable to feel anything but an awful helpless numbness. I look down into the warm, earthy world. Into a nest…
- Ironically, Henry James' biography comforts me & I long to make known to him his posthumous reputation he wrote, in pain, gave all his life…
- And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The…
- I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.
- But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion.
- I was supposed to be having the time of my life.
- I want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life. I can't be satisfied with…
- Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve…
- Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning.
- I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want.…
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- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
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- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
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- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
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