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Them 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…
- I love people. Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his collection. Every story, every incident, every bit of conversation is…
- So many people are shut up tight inside themselves like boxes, yet they would open up, unfolding quite wonderfully, if only you were interested in…
- A bad dream.To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is the bad dream.A bad dream.I…
- There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.
- I think writers are the most narcissistic people. Well, I musn't say this, I like many of them, a great many of my friends are…
- 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…
- Yes, my consuming desire is to mingle with road crews, sailors and soldiers, barroom regulars—to be a part of a scene, anonymous, listening, recording—all this…
- People or stars Regard me sadly, I disappoint them.
- I knew chemistry would be worse, because I'd seen a big card of the ninety-odd elements hung up in the chemistry lab, and all the…
- I like people too much or not at all. I've got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.
- I must learn more about these people―try to understand them, put myself in their place. No, instead I am so busy keeping my head above…
- Why do we electrocute men for murdering an individual and then pin a purple heart on them for mass slaughter of someone arbitrarily labeled “enemy?
- I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.
- I hadn't, at the last moment, felt like washing off the two diagonal lines of dried blood that marked my cheeks. They seemed touching, and…
- If Doctor Nolan asked me for the matches, I would say that I'd thought they were made of candy and had eaten them.
- I didn’t want any flowers, I only wanted To lie with my hands turned up and be utterly empty. How free it is, you have…
- Maybe forgetfulness, like a kind snow, should numb and cover them. But they were a part of me. They were my landscape.
- I opened the door and blinked out into the bright hall. I had the impression it wasn't night and it wasn't day, but some lurid…
- But when I took up my pen, my hand made big, jerky letters like those of a child, and the lines sloped down the page…
- 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…
- It was sometime in October; she had long ago lost track of all the days and it really didn’t matter because one was like another…
- And, I think: I am but one more drop in the great sea of matter, defined, with the ability to realize my existence. Of the…
- I am accused. I dream of massacres. I am a garden of black and red agonies. I drink them, Hating myself, hating and fearing. And…
- …* to learn that money makes life smooth in some ways, and to feel how tight and threadbare life is if you have too little.…
More Them Quotes
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — 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
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster