Ralph Bunche Quotes


I talk to God but the sky is empty. Sylvia Plath Empty 230
To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream. Sylvia Plath Sylvia 211
The thought that I might kill myself formed in my mind coolly as a tree or a flower. Sylvia Plath Suicide 153
And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. Sylvia Plath Imagination 151
It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me. Sylvia Plath Uncategorized 151
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again. Sylvia Plath Poetry 124
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 Mood 113
Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing. Sylvia Plath Writing 111
I desire the things which will destroy me in the end. Sylvia Plath Uncategorized 105
All all becomes profitable. Education is of the most satisfying and available nature. I am at Smith Which two years ago was a doubtful dream and that fortuitous change of dream to reality has led me to desire more and to lash myself onward onward. Sylvia Plath Education 105
See, the darkness is leaking from the cracks. I cannot contain it. I cannot contain my life. Sylvia Plath Life 99
Ill never speak to God again. Sylvia Plath Depression 95
I felt very still and empty the way the eye of a tornado must feel moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo. Sylvia Plath Chaos 94
I think writers are the most narcissistic people. Well I musnt say this I like many of them a great many of my friends are writers. Sylvia Plath Writers 89
Dziewicza strona biaa. Pierwsza skalana i odrzucona. Wszystkie te marzenia obietnice czekanie a bd moga znowu pisa a potem bolesny sfuszerowany gwat na pierwszej kartce. Sylvia Plath Thoughts 86
The night sky is only a sort of carbon paper Blueblack with the muchpoked periods of stars Letting in the light peephole after peephole A bonewhite light like death behind all things. Sylvia Plath Stars 83
Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both. Sylvia Plath Education 78
It seemed silly to wash one day when I would only have to wash again the next. It made me tired just to think of it. Sylvia Plath Depression 76
I dont see what women see in other women Id told Doctor Nolan in my interview that noon. What does a woman see in a woman that she cant see in a man Doctor Nolan paused. Then she said Tenderness. Sylvia Plath Men 76
Is there no way out of the mind? Sylvia Plath Mind 72
What a man wants is a mate and what a woman wants is infinite security and What a man is is an arrow into the future and a what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from. Sylvia Plath Marriage 72
Widow. The word consumes itself. Sylvia Plath Widow 70
Well I know now. I know a little more how much a simple thing like a snowfall can mean to a person Sylvia Plath Snow 69
I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow. Sylvia Plath Beautiful 68
Oh what a poet I will flay myself into. Sylvia Plath Poets 68
So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed and afterward you went about as numb as a slave in a totalitarian state. Sylvia Plath Marriage 65
And 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 Alone 64
Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing. Sylvia Plath Goals 64
Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call. Sylvia Plath Art 61
Why do we electrocute men for murdering an individual and then pin a purple heart on them for mass slaughter of someone arbitrarily labeled enemy Sylvia Plath Murder 60
What I hate is the thought of being under a mans thumb I had told Doctor Nolan. A man doesnt have a worry in the world while Ive got a baby hanging over my head like a big stick to keep me in line. Sylvia Plath Men 60
I am terrified by this dark thing That sleeps in me All day I feel its soft feathery turnings its malignity. Sylvia Plath Depression 60
What I fear most I think is the death of the imagination. Sylvia Plath Imagination 58
Let me live love and say it well in good sentences. Sylvia Plath Writing 58
Kiss me, and you will see how important I am. Sylvia Plath Importance 57
If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days. Sylvia Plath Time 57
Perhaps some day Ill crawl back home beaten defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak beauty out of sorrow. Sylvia Plath Stories 57
I didnt know why I was going to cry but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of the throat and Id cry for a week. Sylvia Plath Sadness 57
I wonder why I dont go to bed and go to sleep. But then it would be tomorrow so I decide that no matter how tired no matter how incoherent I am I can skip on hour more of sleep and live. Sylvia Plath Sleep 56
Then it hit me and I just blurted I like people too much or not at all. Ive got to go down deep to fall into people to really know them. Sylvia Plath People 56
I told him I believed in hell and that certain people like me had to live in hell before they died to make up for missing out on it after death since they didnt believe in life after death and what each person believed happened to him when he died. Sylvia Plath Hell 55
I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket. Sylvia Plath Change 54
I began to see why womanhaters could make such fools of women. Womanhaters were like gods invulnerable and chock full of power. They descended and then they disappeared. You could never catch one. Sylvia Plath Men 52
I must get my soul back from you I am killing my flesh without it. Sylvia Plath Obsession 50
I have done this year what I said I would overcome my fear of facing a blank page day after day acknowledging myself in my deepest emotions a writer come what may. Sylvia Plath Writers 50
They had to call and call And pick the worms off me like sticky pearls. Sylvia Plath Depression 50
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead. Sylvia Plath Uncategorized 50
How frail the human heart must be --a mirrored pool of thought... Sylvia Plath Kindness 50
I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am. Sylvia Plath Bray 49
What I didnt say was that each time I picked up a German dictionary or a German book the very sight of those dense black barbedwire letters made my mind shut like a clam. Sylvia Plath Mental illness 48

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