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Mind Quotes by Sylvia Plath
- The body is amazingly stubborn when it comes to sacrificing itself to the annihilating directions of the mind.
- 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…
- I want to force myself again and again to leave the warmth and security of static situations and move into the world of growth and…
- What I want back is what I was Before the bed, before the knife, Before the brooch-pin and the salve Fixed me in this parenthesis;…
- Is there no way out of the mind?
- 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…
- Yes, I was infatuated with you: I am still. No one has ever heightened such a keen capacity of physical sensation in me. I cut…
- Living with him is like being told a perpetual story: his mind is the biggest, most imaginative I have ever met. I could live in…
- What I didn't say was that each time I picked up a German dictionary or a German book, the very sight of those dense, black,…
- The only reason I remembered this play was because it had a mad person in it, and everything I had ever read about mad people…
- I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the…
- The thought that I might kill myself formed in my mind coolly as a tree or a flower.
- 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…
- This is the light of the mind, cold and planetary. The trees of the mind are black. The light is blue.
- 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'm never going to get married." "You're crazy." Buddy brightened. "You'll change your mind." "No. My mind's made up.
- I get into a rut, unable to yank my mind out of 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…
- One should be able to control and manipulate experiences with an informed and intelligent mind.
More Mind Quotes
- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
- The energy of the mind is the essence of life. — Aristotle
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle