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Sylvia Plath has 524 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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You ask me why I spend my life writing? Do I find entertainment? Is it worthwhile? Above all, does it pay? If…
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It was my last act of love (first words to her mother in the hospital after her first major suicide attempt)
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God, if ever I have come close to wanting to commit suicide, it is now, with the groggy sleepless blood dragging through…
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The body is amazingly stubborn when it comes to sacrificing itself to the annihilating directions of the mind.
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Last year a friend went dark in a nervous city alone, the sea flashing against his glasses, the sea sorted out at…
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I guess they call it suicide, but I'm to full to swallow my pride I can't stand losing you The Police Dying…
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One night she hid the pink cotton scarf from her raincoat in the pillowcase when the nurse came around to lock up…
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The woman is perfected. Her dead Body wears the smile of accomplishment.
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Doing all the little tricky things it takes to grow up, step by step, into an anxious and unsettling world.
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Tomorrow I will curse the dawn, but there will be other, earlier nights, and the dawns will be no longer hell laid…
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You have lost all delight in life. Ahead is a large array of blind alleys. You are half-deliberately, half-desperately cutting off your…
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Look at that ugly dead mask here and do not forget it. It is a chalk mask with dead dry poison behind…
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I shall never get out of this! There are two of me now: This new absolutely white person and the old yellow…
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She had been so wicked that in all her life she had done only one good deed-given an onion to a beggar.…
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My mother, who was radiant, young, and beautiful even as she lay dying, heard voices and saw visions, but she always managed…
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In the dark morning silence, I placed a gun to her head. She wore red dresses, but now she lay dead.
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She lay in the dark and knew everything.
— Ian Mcewan
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Then she lay on her back and gazed at the cloudless sky. Mr. Beebe, whose opinion of her rose daily, whispered to…
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For once, he slept first. She lay in the dark, listening to him breathe, stealing a little of his warmth as her…
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Twice Flush had done his utmost to kill his enemy; twice he had failed. And why had he failed, he asked himself?…
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Emma was no asleep, she was pretending to be asleep; and, while he was dozing off at her side, she lay awake,…
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She lay down and never stirred. To move hand or foot, or even so much as one finger, would have been an…
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In the classics section, she had picked up a copy of The Magic Mountain and recalled the summer between her junior and…
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