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Over Quotes by Sylvia Plath
- 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…
- ... you looked around and saw everybody either married or busy and happy and thinking and being creative, and you felt scared, sick, lethargic, worst…
- The sickness rolled through me in great waves. After each wave it would fade away and leave me limp as a wet leaf and shivering…
- The journey over the bridge had unnerved me. The river water passed me by like an untouched drink. I suspected that even if my mother…
- 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…
- 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.…
- Let's face it: I'm scared, scared and frozen. First, I guess I'm afraid for myself... the old primitive urge for survival. It's getting so I…
- I had always imagined myself hitching up on to my elbows on the delivery table after it was all over - dead white, of course,…
- Some things are hard to write about. After something happens to you, you go to write it down, and either you over dramatize it, or…
- What I hate is the thought of being under a man's thumb," I had told Doctor Nolan. "A man doesn't have a worry in the…
- Secretly, in studies and attics and schoolrooms all over America, people must be writing.
- I hate handing over money to people for doing what I could just as easily do myself, it makes me nervous.
- 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…
- …'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…
- Sure, I’m dramatic and sloppily semi-cynical and semi-sentimental. But, in leisure years I could grow and choose my way. Now I am living on the…
- 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 suppose I'll always be over-vulnerable, slightly paranoid.
- With that strange knowing that comes over me, like a clairvoyance, I know that I am sure of myself and my enormous and alarmingly timeless…
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- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Getting over someone is a grieving process. You mourn the loss of the relationship, and that's only expedited by 'Out of sight,… — Hank Azaria
- Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives. — Richard Bach
- I'm substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House… — Neil Armstrong
- I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places. — John Ashbery