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Wanted Quotes by Sylvia Plath
- Last year a friend went dark in a nervous city alone, the sea flashing against his glasses, the sea sorted out at last in his…
- That’s one of the reasons I never wanted to get married. The last thing I wanted was infinite security and to be the place an…
- When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn’t know. "Oh, sure you know," the photographer said. "She wants," said Jay…
- In a rabbit-fear I may hurl myself under the wheels of the car because the lights terrify me, and under the dark blind death of…
- Eternity bores me, I never wanted it.
- I didn't know shorthand either. This meant I couldn't get a good job after college. My mother kept telling me nobody wanted a plain English…
- 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…
- But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and defensless that I couldn't do it. It was…
- I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.
- When they asked some old Roman philosopher or other how he wanted to die, he said he would open his veins in a warm bath.…
- 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…
- A dispassionate white sun shone at the summit of the sky. I wanted to hone myself on it till I grew saintly and thin and…
- 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…
- I wanted to tell her that if only something were wrong with my body it would be fine, I would rather have anything wrong with…
- I wanted to crawl in between those black lines of print, the way you crawl through a fence, and go to sleep under that beautiful…
- I am afraid of getting older … I am afraid of getting married. Spare me from cooking three meals a day—spare me from the relentless…
- When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn't know.
- I wanted to be where nobody I knew could ever come.
- If only I knew what I wanted I could try to see about getting it.
- I wanted to do everything once and for all and be through with it.
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