Quotes - Shenell (Dayton, OH) Showing 1-30 of 181

#1

“Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

tags: importance, kiss, kissing

#2

“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, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

tags: writing

7948 likes

#3

“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

tags: books, life, limits

20244 likes

#4

“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

tags: breath, existence

9775 likes

#5

“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.)”
― Sylvia Plath

4447 likes

#6

“Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted.”
― Sylvia Plath

tags: life

3481 likes

#7

“let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

tags: writing

3628 likes

#8

“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my eyes and all is born again.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

tags: poetry

4337 likes

#9

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

tags: doubt, faith, god, prayer

2483 likes

#10

“What did my fingers do before they held him?”
― Sylvia Plath

1399 likes

#11

“How we need another soul to cling to.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

tags: amity, companionship, loneliness

1954 likes

#12

“We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.”
― Sylvia Plath

tags: couples, friendship

2485 likes

#13

“I want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.”
― Sylvia Plath

1207 likes

#14

“I lean to you, numb as a fossil. Tell me I'm here.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Collected Poems

tags: numbness, poetry

759 likes

#15

“Eternity bores me,
I never wanted it.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Collected Poems

715 likes

#16

“How frail the human heart must be―a mirrored pool of thought.”
― Sylvia Plath, Letters Home

tags: frailty, human-heart, thought

650 likes

#17

“I desire the things which will destroy me in the end.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

3656 likes

#18

“Character is fate.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

280 likes

#19

“I have suffered the atrocity of sunsets.

--from "Elm", written 19 April 1962”
― Sylvia Plath, Ariel

334 likes

#20

“I have stitched life into me like a rare organ

--from "Three Women: A Poem for Three Voices", written 1962”
― Sylvia Plath, The Collected Poems

234 likes

#21

“Wear your heart on your skin in this life.”
― Sylvia Plath, Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose and Diary Excerpts

tags: tattoo, tattooing, tattoos

297 likes

#22

“Compared with me, a tree is immortal.”
― Sylvia Plath

57 likes

#23

“Shut your eyes and see.”
― James Joyce

2819 likes

#24

“But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.

from “Araby”
― James Joyce, Dubliners

tags: irish-short-stories

438 likes

#25

“Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?”
― James Joyce, The Dead

tags: love

387 likes

#26

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep

127124 likes

#27

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

135517 likes

#28

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

tags: friendship

88107 likes

#29