"A million years of evolution, Eric said bitterly,……" — Sylvia Plath

"A million years of evolution, Eric said bitterly, and what are we? Animals."

— Sylvia Plath

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520 Quotes by Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath has 520 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

You ask me why I spend my life writing? Do I find entertainment? Is it worthwhile? Above all, does it…
It was my last act of love (first words to her mother in the hospital after her first major suicide…
God, if ever I have come close to wanting to commit suicide, it is now, with the groggy sleepless blood…
The body is amazingly stubborn when it comes to sacrificing itself to the annihilating directions of the mind.
Last year a friend went dark in a nervous city alone, the sea flashing against his glasses, the sea sorted…
I guess they call it suicide, but I'm to full to swallow my pride I can't stand losing you The…
One night she hid the pink cotton scarf from her raincoat in the pillowcase when the nurse came around to…
The woman is perfected. Her dead Body wears the smile of accomplishment.
Doing all the little tricky things it takes to grow up, step by step, into an anxious and unsettling world.
Tomorrow I will curse the dawn, but there will be other, earlier nights, and the dawns will be no longer…
You have lost all delight in life. Ahead is a large array of blind alleys. You are half-deliberately, half-desperately cutting…
Look at that ugly dead mask here and do not forget it. It is a chalk mask with dead dry…

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More Animal Quotes

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At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will… — Francis of Assisi
People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile. — David Attenborough
There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the… — David Attenborough
Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know… — David Attenborough
The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual… — David Attenborough
I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how… — David Attenborough
I'm not an animal lover if that means you think things are nice if you can pat them, but I… — David Attenborough
If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in… — David Attenborough
Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren't aware… — David Attenborough

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