I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give.
Tags: love, acceptance

Other Quotes by "Sylvia Plath"

Mad Girl's Love Song I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my lids and all is born again. (I think I made you up inside my head.) The stars go waltzing out in blue and red, And arbitrary blackness gallops in: I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead. I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane. (I think I made you up inside my head.) God topples from the sky, hell's fires fade: Exit seraphim and Satan's men: I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead. I fancied you'd return the way you said, But I grow old and I forget your name. (I think I made you up inside my head.) I should have loved a thunderbird instead; At least when spring comes they roar back again. I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead. (I think I made you up inside my head.)
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 didn't believe in life after death, and what each person believed happened to him when he died.
Tags: profound, hell, death
The trouble about jumping was that if you didn't pick the right number of storeys, you might still be alive when you hit bottom.
Tags: suicide, death
I am terrified by this dark thing That sleeps in me; All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity.
Tags: poetry, fear, depression, darkness
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.
Tags: writing
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