“God, is this all it is, the ricocheting down the corridor of laughter and tears? Of self-worship and self-loathe? Of glory and disgust?”
”...sick with unfulfilled longing, alone, self-reviling”
“I may never be happy, but tonight I am content.”
“Oh, he’s magnetic, he’s charming, you could fall into his eyes.”
“I like people too much or not at all. I’ve got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.”
“Let’s face it; I’m scared and frozen. First, I guess, I’m afraid for myself...the old primitive urge for survival. It’s getting so I live every moment with terrible intensity.”
“...remember, remember, remember, this is now, and now. Live it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I've taken for granted. When you feel that they may be the good-bye, the last time, it hits you harder.”
“But writing poems and letters doesn't seem to do much good.”
“I guess this all sounds a bit frantic. I guess I am.”
“Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams. And you weren’t having any of those.”
“If I didnt think I’d be much happier. If I didn't have any sex organs, I wouldn't waver on the brink of nervous emotion and tears all the time.”
“Something in me wants more. I can’t rest.”
“There is so much, and I am torn in different directions, pulled thin, taut against horizons too distant for me to reach.”
“And, I think, I am but one more drop in the great sea of matter, defined, with the ability to realize my existence.”
“In the back of my mind there are bomb falling, women and children screaming, but I can’t describe it now.”
“”...so I can bear children, and instill in them the biting eating desire to learn and love life which I will never quite learn.”
“..and so I could go on, into my thoughts, writing much, trying to find the core, the meaning of myself.”
“I am jealous of those who think more deeply, who write better, who draw better, who ski better, who look better, who live better, who love better than I.”
--Little snippets from The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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