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Time Quotes by Sylvia Plath
- When you are insane, you are busy being insane-all the time ... when I was crazy, that was all I was.
- If I didn't think, I'd be much happier; if I didn't have any sex organs, I wouldn't waver on the brink of nervous emotion and…
- If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.
- If I have a dry spell ... I wait and live harder, eyes, ears, and heart open, and when the productive time comes, it is…
- 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;…
- I was supposed to be having the time of my life.
- 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…
- Why honey, don't you want to get dressed?" My mother took care never to tell me to do anything. She would only reason with me…
- 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…
- From the night Buddy Willard kissed me and said I must go out with a lot of boys, he made me feel I was much…
- The first time I saw a fingerbowl was at the home of my benefactress. [...] The water had a few cherry blossoms in it, and…
- It was like the first time i saw a cadaver. For weeks afterward the cadavers head, or what was left of it - floated up…
- 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,…
- There was a beautiful time...
- You cannot regard your own life with objective curiosity all the time...
- I liked looking on at other people in crucial situations. If there was a road accident or a street fight or a baby pickled in…
- …beating time along the edge of thought.
- August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.
- 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…
- I may have made a straight A in physics, but I was panic-struck. Physics made me sick the whole time I learned it.
- I thought it sounded just like the sort of drug a man would invent. Here was a woman in terrible pain, obviously feeling every bit…
- When you are insane, you are busy being insane - all the time.
- If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth…
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