Books about Books

Scarlett Rose > Scarlett's Quotes

Showing 1-30 of 157
« previous 1 3 4 5 6
sort by

    like
  • #1
    E.E. Cummings
    “One's not half of two; two are halves of one.”
    ― E.E. Cummings
    tags: completion, couples
    640 likes

    • like
  • #2
    Sylvia Plath
    “Is there no way out of the mind?”
    ― Sylvia Plath
    3438 likes

    • like
  • #3
    Sylvia Plath
    “I desire the things which will destroy me in the end.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    3673 likes

    • like
  • #4
    Sylvia Plath
    “I want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.”
    ― Sylvia Plath
    1210 likes

    • like
  • #5
    Sylvia Plath
    “To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
    tags: sylvia-plath, ted-hughes, the-bell-jar
    2384 likes

    • like
  • #6
    Sylvia Plath
    “I couldn’t see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
    1520 likes

    • like
  • #7
    Sylvia Plath
    “I felt wise and cynical as all hell.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
    1384 likes

    • like
  • #8
    Sylvia Plath
    “Out of the ash
    I rise with my red hair
    and I eat men like air.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, Ariel: The Restored Edition
    1055 likes

    • like
  • #9
    Sylvia Plath
    “I write only because
    There is a voice within me
    That will not be still”
    ― Sylvia Plath, Letters Home
    1119 likes

    • like
  • #10
    Sylvia Plath
    “The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    tags: creativity, self-confidence, self-doubt
    1671 likes

    • like
  • #11
    Sylvia Plath
    “Eternity bores me,
    I never wanted it.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Collected Poems
    717 likes

    • like
  • #12
    Sylvia Plath
    “I lean to you, numb as a fossil. Tell me I'm here.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Collected Poems
    tags: numbness, poetry
    759 likes

    • like
  • #13
    Sylvia Plath
    “How frail the human heart must be―a mirrored pool of thought.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, Letters Home
    tags: frailty, human-heart, thought
    652 likes

    • like
  • #14
    Sylvia Plath
    “I am too pure for you or anyone.

    From the poem "Fever 103°", 20 October 1962”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Collected Poems
    437 likes

    • like
  • #15
    Sylvia Plath
    “I have taken a pill to kill
    The thin
    Papery feeling.

    --from "Cut", written 24 October 1962”
    ― Sylvia Plath, Ariel: The Restored Edition
    345 likes

    • like
  • #16
    Sylvia Plath
    “Is it the sea you hear in me?
    Its dissatisfactions?
    Or the voice of nothing, that was your madness?

    Love is a shadow.
    How you lie and cry after it.

    --from "Elm", written 19 April 1962”
    ― Sylvia Plath, Ariel: The Restored Edition
    353 likes

    • like
  • #17
    Sylvia Plath
    “The blood of love welled up in my heart with a slow pain. ”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    307 likes

    • like
  • #18
    Sylvia Plath
    “Character is fate.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    280 likes

    • like
  • #19
    Anaïs Nin
    “You cannot save people. You can only love them.”
    ― Anaïs Nin
    1111 likes

    • like
  • #20
    Victor Hugo
    “Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”
    ― Victor Hugo
    tags: literature, music, poetry
    13924 likes

    • like
  • #21
    Steve Moore
    “There is a face beneath this mask, but it isn't me. I'm no more that face than I am the muscles beneath it, or the bones beneath that.”
    ― Steve Moore, V for Vendetta
    tags: avatar, beauty, beauty-is-not-skin-deep, burka, burqa, hijab, mask, niqab, superficial-beauty, true-beauty
    316 likes

    • like
  • #22
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    2818 likes

    • like
  • #23
    Thomas Mann
    “Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.”
    ― Thomas Mann, Death in Venice and Other Tales
    tags: absurd, beauty, perverse, solitude
    1767 likes

    • like
  • #24
    Audrey Hepburn
    “I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel.”
    ― Audrey Hepburn
    tags: alone, content, privacy, refueling, reprive, restoration, solitude, weekend
    2020 likes

    • like
  • #25
    Aldous Huxley
    “The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.”
    ― Aldous Huxley
    tags: introspection, solitude
    2187 likes

    • like
  • #26
    Robert Browning
    “Who hears music, feels his solitude
    Peopled at once.”
    ― Robert Browning, The complete poetical works of Browning
    tags: music, power-of-music, solitude
    1075 likes

    • like
  • #27
    Lord Byron
    “There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
    There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
    There is society, where none intrudes,
    By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
    I love not man the less, but Nature more”
    ― Lord Byron
    tags: nature, poetry, solitude
    2891 likes

    • like
  • #28
    Albert Camus
    “In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion."

    [The Minotaur]”
    ― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
    tags: introspection, retreat, solitude
    1928 likes

    • like
  • #29
    Aristotle
    “Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: solitude
    1091 likes

    • like
  • #30
    May Sarton
    “Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.”
    ― May Sarton
    tags: contentment, loneliness, solitude
    692 likes



Rss
« previous 1 3 4 5 6
All Quotes



Tags From Scarlett’s Quotes

completion
couples
sylvia-plath
ted-hughes
the-bell-jar
creativity
self-confidence
self-doubt
numbness
poetry
frailty
human-heart
thought
literature
music
avatar
beauty
beauty-is-not-skin-deep
burka
burqa
hijab
mask
niqab
superficial-beauty
true-beauty
absurd
perverse
solitude
alone
content
privacy
refueling
reprive
restoration
weekend
introspection
power-of-music
nature
retreat
contentment
loneliness