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Self Quotes by Sylvia Plath
- We stayed at home to write, to consolidate our outstretched selves.
- 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…
- Yes, there is joy, fulfillment and companionship but the loneliness of the soul in its appalling self-consciousness is horrible and overpowering.
- 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 feel, am mad as any writer must in one way be; why not make it real? I am too close to the bourgeois society…
- Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning.
- God, but life is loneliness, despite all the opiates, despite the shrill tinsel gaiety of "parties" with no purpose, despite the false grinning faces we…
- Strange, when one thinks of all the other boys, infinite experimental kisses, test tube infatuations, crushes, pseudo-loves. All through this physical separation, through the testing…
- Now I know what loneliness is, I think. Momentary loneliness, anyway. It comes from a vague core of the self - - like a disease…
- The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
- I don't see,' I said, 'how people stand being old. Your insides all dry up. When you're young you're so self-reliant. You don't even need…
- God, is this all it is, the ricocheting down the corridor of laughter and tears? Of self-worship and self-loathing? Of glory and disgust?
- A little thing, like children putting flowers in my hair, can fill up the widening cracks in my self-assurance like soothing lanolin.
- For the few little successes I may seem to have, there are acres of misgivings and self-doubt.
- I must not be selfless: develop a sense of self. A solidness that can't be attacked.
More Self Quotes
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation. — Arthur Ashe
- Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. — Isaac Asimov
- Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self. — Francis of Assisi
- That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it… — Mary Astell
- Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity. — Nancy Astor
- It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us… — David Attenborough
- Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. — Wystan Hugh Auden