"The only reason I remembered this play was……" — Sylvia Plath
"The only reason I remembered this play was because it had a mad person in it, and everything I had ever read about mad people stuck in my mind, while everything else flew out."
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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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