"To annihilate the world by annihilation of oneself……" — Sylvia Plath
"To annihilate the world by annihilation of oneself is the deluded height of desperate egoism."
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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 Annihilate Quotes
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In spite of the honestest efforts to annihilate my I-ity, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my…
— Jane Welsh Carlyle
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We must destroy all which in the present school answers to the organization of constraint, the artificial surroundings by which…
— Francesc Ferrer i Guardia
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Stimulate don't Annihilate.
— Lee Haney
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The vanishing, volatile froth of the present which any shadow will alter, any thought blow away, any event annihilate, is…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Perhaps my dynamite plants will put an end to war sooner than your [pacifist] congresses. On the day two army…
— Alfred Nobel
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What is a scientist?... We give the name scientist to the type of man who has felt experiment to be…
— Maria Montessori
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Where all of the man is what property he owns, it does not take long to annihilate him.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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People who make war in order to escape slavery may possibly win....This will doubtless bring death and suffering to thousands....But…
— Kenneth Roberts
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Back in World War II, we viewed the Japanese as ‘yellow, slant-eyed dogs’ that believed in different gods. They were…
— Tom Hanks
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If you aren’t hearing your inner voice, it could mean you’re overburdened or not stimulated enough, or that you’ve learned…
— Kelly Cutrone
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Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral…
— Frederick Douglass
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