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Quotes About Existence

Is that life after death — mind living on paper and flesh living in offspring?
~ Sylvia Plath
I'll call you. Take care. And he was gone. So the rain comes down hard outside my room, and like Eddie Cohen, I say, ... fifteen thousand years - - - of what? We're still nothing but animals.
~ Sylvia Plath
The only problem was, Church, even the Catholic Church, didn't take up the whole of your life No matter how much you knelt and prayed, you still had to eat three meals a day and have a job and live in the world.
~ Sylvia Plath
And thou, there has always furthermore in addition inescapably and forever got to be a Thou. Otherwise there is no i because i am what other people interpret me as being and am nothing if there were no people.
~ Sylvia Plath
Semmi sem valódi, csak a jelen, és én máris érzem, századok súlya fojtogat. Élt egy lány száz évvel ezelÅ'tt is, mint ahogy én most. ? halott. Én vagyok a jelen, de tudom, hogy egyszer én is elt?nök. A nagy pillanat, a lángcsóva, jön és megy, véghetetlen futóhomok. Nem akarok meghalni, nem.
~ Sylvia Plath
I can't be satisfied with the colossal job of merely living.
~ Sylvia Plath
After all, I am alive only by accident.
~ Sylvia Plath
Nothing is real except the present, and already, I feel the weight of centuries smothering me. Some girl a hundred years ago once lived as I do. And she is dead. I am the present, but I know I, too, will pass. The high moment, the burning flash, come and are gone, continuous quicksand. And I don't want to die.
~ Sylvia Plath
Die Menschen bestanden in erster Linie aus Staub, und ich verstand nicht, warum es besser sein sollte, all diesen Staub zu verarzten, als Gedichte zu schreiben, an die sich die Leute erinnerten und die sie sich aufsagten, wenn sie unglücklich oder krank waren oder nicht schlafen konnten.
~ Sylvia Plath
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my lids and all is born again.
~ Sylvia Plath
I have to live my life, and it is the only one I'll ever have. And you cannot regard your own life with objective curiosity all the time...
~ Sylvia Plath
Se zgâia la imaginea ei în ferestrele lucioase ale magazinelor de parc? ar fi vrut s? se asigure, clip? de clip?, c? exist? în continuare.
~ Sylvia Plath
I thought how strange it had never occurred to me before that I was
~ Sylvia Plath
As I paddled on, my heartbeat boomed like a dull motor in my ears. I am I am I am.
~ Sylvia Plath
So you will rot in the ground, and so you say, what the hell? Who cares? But you care, and somehow you don't want to live just one life.
~ Sylvia Plath
Le dije que creía en el infierno, y que ciertas personas, como yo, tenían que vivir en el infierno antes de morir, para compensarlo por perderlo después de la muerte, ya que no creían en la vida después de la muerte, y qué cada persona creyó que eso es lo que le pasaba cuando moría.
~ Sylvia Plath
Saturday morning, and I am at the old game of catching time between my fingers as it is running, forever running, away.
~ Sylvia Plath
Never mind the three dimensions All is flat, and you not there.
~ Sylvia Plath
Here I am, a bundle of past recollections and future dreams, knotted up in a reasonably attractive bundle of flesh.
~ Sylvia Plath
Mentally I have led a vegetable existence this summer.
~ Sylvia Plath
Io sono il presente, ma so che anch'io me ne andrò. L'instante sublime, la fiamma che consuma arriva e subito scompare: sabbie mobili, semore. E io non voglio morire.
~ Sylvia Plath
I don't believe there is a life after death in the literal sense. I don't believe my individual ego or spirit is unique and important enough to wake up after burial and soar to bliss and pink clouds in heaven. If we leave the body behind as we must, we are nothing.
~ Sylvia Plath
In the air was the strong smell of masculinity which creates the ideal medium for me to exist in.
~ Sylvia Plath
We are not what we might be; what we are Outlaws all extrapolation Beyond the interval of now and here: White whales are gone with the white ocean.
~ Sylvia Plath