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Trying Quotes by Sylvia Plath
- I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.
- 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…
- 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…
- I saw the years of my life spaced along a road in the form of telephone poles threaded together by wires. I counted one, two,…
- There is so much hurt in this game of searching for a mate, of testing, trying. And you realize suddenly that you forgot it was…
- Hurl yourself at goals above your head and bear the lacerations that come when you slip and make a fool of yourself. Try always, as…
- No, I won't try to escape myself by losing myself in artificial chatter 'Did you have a nice vacation?' 'Oh, yes, and you?' I'll stay…
- 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…
- …* to know a lot of people I love pieces of, and to want to synthesize those pieces in me somehow, be it by painting…
- So you got rid of your astonishment that someone could write so much more dynamically than you. You stopped cherishing your aloneness and poetic differentness…
- To look at her, you might not guess that inside she is laughing and crying, at her own stupidities and luckiness, and at the strange…
- Why can’t I try on different lives, like dresses, to see which fits best and is more becoming?
- One thing, I try to be honest. And what is revealed is often rather hideously unflattering.
- If only I knew what I wanted I could try to see about getting it.
More Trying Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- 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
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- I try to work on shows that I would want to watch. — J. J. Abrams
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I'm sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks before Christmas… — Andrea Arnold
- I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I try to… — Darren Aronofsky
- I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and… — Darren Aronofsky
- So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to… — Antonin Artaud
- Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try. — Mary Kay Ash