"The thought that I might kill myself formed……" — Sylvia Plath
"The thought that I might kill myself formed in my mind coolly as a tree or a flower."
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Sylvia Plath
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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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More Coolly Quotes
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Buddhism is a hundred times as realistic as Christianity it is part of its living heritage that it is able…
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When men exercise their reason coolly and freely, on a variety of distinct questions, they inevitably fall into different opinions,…
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He who sedulously attends, pointedly asks, calmly speaks, coolly answers and ceases when he has no more to say is…
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There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room, and to…
— George Eliot
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I came in at half past eleven. Since then I have been sitting in an easy chair like a fool.…
— James Joyce
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People will always write and think all sorts of things – be irritated by us, have affection for us, think…
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I recently discussed with an intelligent and well-disposed man the threat of another war, which in my opinion would seriously…
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Whoever wants his judgment to be believed, should express it coolly and dispassionately; for all vehemence springs from the will.…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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People often say to me - how clever you are! How brilliant to be able to go from ballet to…
— Robert Helpmann
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I have never been able to carry out any work coolly. On the contrary it is done, so to speak,…
— Kathe Kollwitz
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One way in which fools succeed where wise men fail is that through ignorance of the danger they sometimes go…
— Richard Whately
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It is better to have no emotion when it is work. Do what needs to be done, and do it…
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