"I am inhabited by a cry. Nightly it……" — Sylvia Plath

"I am inhabited by a cry. Nightly it flaps out Looking, with its hooks, for something to love."

— 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 Cry Quotes

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Nobody needs to cry for me. I'm going to be great. — Lance Armstrong
Crying wolf is a real danger. — David Attenborough
I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or… — Abigail Adams
People can cry much easier than they can change. — James A. Baldwin
I cry a lot, you know. Which is very difficult for a man to recognise, but I do. I cry… — Antonio Banderas
It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought… — Douglas Adams
I want to feel passion, I want to feel pain. I want to weep at the sound of your name.… — Joey Lauren Adams
The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated. — Charles Baudelaire
I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry. — Pierre Beaumarchais
Crying is really bad for your vocal cords. — Adele
It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying. — Ingrid Bergman
Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if… — Ambrose Bierce

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