"See, the darkness is leaking from the cracks.……" — Sylvia Plath
"See, the darkness is leaking from the cracks. I cannot contain it. I cannot contain my life."
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520 Quotes by Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath has 520 quotes on this site.
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You ask me why I spend my life writing? Do I find entertainment? Is it worthwhile? Above all, does it…
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It was my last act of love (first words to her mother in the hospital after her first major suicide…
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God, if ever I have come close to wanting to commit suicide, it is now, with the groggy sleepless blood…
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The body is amazingly stubborn when it comes to sacrificing itself to the annihilating directions of the mind.
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Last year a friend went dark in a nervous city alone, the sea flashing against his glasses, the sea sorted…
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I guess they call it suicide, but I'm to full to swallow my pride I can't stand losing you The…
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One night she hid the pink cotton scarf from her raincoat in the pillowcase when the nurse came around to…
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The woman is perfected. Her dead Body wears the smile of accomplishment.
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Doing all the little tricky things it takes to grow up, step by step, into an anxious and unsettling world.
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Tomorrow I will curse the dawn, but there will be other, earlier nights, and the dawns will be no longer…
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You have lost all delight in life. Ahead is a large array of blind alleys. You are half-deliberately, half-desperately cutting…
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Look at that ugly dead mask here and do not forget it. It is a chalk mask with dead dry…
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Phantoms in general are nothing more than trifling disorders of the spirit; images we cannot contain within the bounds of…
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My effort here is to help you to feel that existence is not indifferent towards you. It is deeply concerned…
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The Magi are filled with awe by what they see; heaven on earth and earth in heaven; man in God…
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Some men there are love not a gaping pig, some that are mad if they behold a cat, and others…
— William Shakespeare
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Tao is beyond words and beyond understanding. Words may be used to speak of it, but they cannot contain it.…
— Laozi
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Indeed, when God's glory dwells in me, there is nothing too far away, nothing too painful, nothing too strange or…
— Henri Nouwen
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Christ does not inhabit buildings or a certain atmosphere; in fact, the very heavens cannot contain Him. Rather, He is…
— David Wilkerson
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Their pitiless ideology only survives because it is maintained by force. But the day comes when the anger and frustration…
— Margaret Thatcher
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The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights'. It is a…
— Queen Victoria
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Books remember all the things you cannot contain.
— Elizabeth McCracken
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In every possible instance Saint Paul begged Christians to restrain themselves to contain their carnal yearnings to live solitary and…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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What God has destined for your life will come to fulfillment. You may thimk you have too many obstacles ,…
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