Shivi > Shivi's Quotes

“There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out
but I'm too tough for him,
I say, stay in there, I'm not going to let anybody see you.”
― Charles Bukowski

“The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“I talk to God but the sky is empty.”
― Sylvia Plath

“No, I’m not ok. But I haven’t been ok since I was 11, maybe 12. I am still here though.
I’m still breathing. For me, sometimes, that will have to be enough.”
― Clementine von Radics

“I feel unspeakably lonely. And I feel - drained. It is a blank state of mind and soul I cannot describe to you as I think it would not make any difference. Also it is a very private feeling I have - that of melting into a perpetual nervous breakdown. I am often questioning myself what I further want to do, who I further wish to be; which parts of me, exactly, are still functioning properly. No answers, darling. At all.”
― Anne Sexton, Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters

“Everyone in me is a bird
I am beating all my wings”
― Anne Sexton, Love Poems

“Sometimes the soul takes pictures of things it has wished for, but never seen.”
― Anne Sexton

“It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.”
― Anne Sexton

“I have survived too many storms to be bothered by rain drops.”
― Phyllis Couzart