“If only I knew what I wanted I could try to see about getting it.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.comTagged: Wanting, Desire, Lust, Apathy
“If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter - for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself. Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.comTagged: comparison, Jealousy, Type 4, Self-Love, Self-Acceptance
“I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.comTagged: Love, Relationships, Being Dead Inside
“What is happy? It is a going always on. There is something better to be done than I have done, and spurred by the fair delusion of progress, I will seek to progress, to whip myself on, to more and more- to learning. Always.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.comTagged: Learning, Progress, Happiness
“How many different deaths I can die?”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.comTagged: Life, Death, Regeneration, reinvention
“I am gone quite mad with the knowledge of accepting the overwhelming number of things I can never know, places I can never go, and people I can never be.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.comTagged: ENFP, INFP, Identity, Opportunity
“Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.comTagged: Relationships, Love, kiss, romance
“It's a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It's much easier to be somebody else.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.comTagged: character, Personality, self, Identity
“I am jealous of those who think more deeply, who write better, who draw better, who ski better, who look better, who live better, who love better than I.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.comTagged: Jealousy, Envy, Love, Living, Creativity
“It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.comTagged: travel, Leaving, Dissatisfaction, Wanderlust, restlessness
“With me, the present is forever, and forever is always shifting, flowing, melting. This second is life. And when it is gone it is dead. But you can't start over with each new second. You have to judge by what is dead. It's like quicksand... hopeless from the start.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.comTagged: Future, Past, Change, Memories
“You are a dream; I hope I never meet you.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.comTagged: Imagination, Idealism, INFP, Relationships, Infatuation
“Here I am, a bundle of past recollections and future dreams, knotted up in a reasonably attractive bundle of flesh.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.comTagged: Life, humanity, Bodies, Future, Past
“The danger is that in this move toward new horizons and far directions, that I may lose what I have now, and not find anything except loneliness.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.comTagged: Change, Loneliness, Moving On, lost
“I can't be satisfied with the colossal job of merely living.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.comTagged: Dissatisfaction, Wanting More, Living, Life
“So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.comTagged: Reading, Thinking, Living, Life, ENFP
“Living with him is like being told a perpetual story: his mind is the biggest, most imaginative I have ever met. I could live in its growing countries forever.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.comTagged: Relationships, Imagination, Infatuation
“I want to taste and glory in each day, and never be afraid to experience pain; and never shut myself up in a numb core of nonfeeling, or stop questioning and criticizing life and take the easy way out. To learn and think: to think and live; to live and learn: this always, with new insight, new under…”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.comTagged: Life, Living, Feeling, Love, Creativity
“The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.comTagged: Creativity, Self-Doubt
“Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.comTagged: Life, Excitment, Questioning
“Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.comTagged: Heartbreak, Sorrow, Art, Writing, Creativity
“I don’t care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.comTagged: Relationships, caring
“I like people too much or not at all. I've got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.comTagged: People, Relationships
“His body fits with mine as if they were made in the same body-shop to do just that.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.comTagged: Love, Bodies, Touch, Intimacy, cuddling
“Some things are hard to write about. After something happens to you, you go to write it down, and either you over dramatize it, or underplay it, exaggerate the wrong parts or ignore the important ones. At any rate, you never write it quite the way you want to.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.comTagged: Writing, Creativity, Life
“I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.comTagged: Happiness, Sadness, Moodiness
“Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously near to wanting nothing.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.comTagged: Wanting, Desire, Lust, Bleakness, Nihilism
“I love people. Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his collection. Every story, every incident, every bit of conversation is raw material for me.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.comTagged: ENFP, People, Conversation, Art