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"To those in the bell jar stopped like a dead baby, life itself is the bad dream."
— Sylvia Plath

tags: bell, hughes, jar, plath, sylvia, ted, the
4 people liked it

"Dying is an art.
Like everything else,
I do it exceptionally well.
I do it so it feels like hell.
I do it so it feels real.
I guess you could say I have a call."
— Sylvia Plath

tags: death
62 people liked it

"I don't trust them but I'm learning to use them."
— Adrienne Rich (Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971-1972)

tags: adrienne, diving, into, rich, trust, wreck
7 people liked it

"Live or die but don't poison everything."
— Saul Bellow

tags: bellow, dying, living, saul
5 people liked it

"Kiss me and you'll see how important I am."
— Sylvia Plath

tags: importance, kissing, plath, self, sylvia, worth
12 people liked it

"Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing."
— Sylvia Plath

tags: goals
182 people liked it

"Is there no way out of the mind?"
— Sylvia Plath

125 people liked it

"I talk to God but the sky is empty."
— Sylvia Plath

tags: god
110 people liked it

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, philosophy, wish
11,910 people liked it

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
— Albert Einstein

tags: einstein, human, humor, infinity, nature, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
12,504 people liked it

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: be-yourself, confidence, individuality, those-who-matter
18,885 people liked it

"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: confidence, inspirational, wisdom
10,766 people liked it

"Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."
— Albert Camus

tags: friends, friendship
9,817 people liked it

"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt."
— Abraham Lincoln

tags: wisdom
9,598 people liked it

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
7,218 people liked it

"All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by frost."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)

tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither
6,443 people liked it

"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."
— William Shakespeare (As You Like It)

tags: wisdom
6,604 people liked it

"If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything."
— Malcolm X

tags: belief, integrity
6,831 people liked it

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
— Robert Frost

tags: life
7,432 people liked it

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
— Oscar Wilde (Lady Windermere's Fan)

tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
5,251 people liked it

"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."
— Douglas Adams (The Restaurant at the End of the Universe)

tags: humor, scifi
3,364 people liked it

"Once I was beautiful. Now I am myself,
Counting this row and that row of moccasins
Waiting on the silent shelf."
— Anne Sexton

12 people liked it

"The joy that isn't shared dies young."
— Anne Sexton

17 people liked it

"Now I am going back
And I have ripped my hand
From your hand as I said I would
And I have made it this far ..."
— Anne Sexton

10 people liked it

"All I wanted was a little piece of life, to be married, to have children.... I was trying my damnedest to lead a conventional life, for that was how I was brought up, and it was what my husband wanted of me. But one can't build little white picket fences to keep the nightmares out."
— Anne Sexton

18 people liked it

"God owns heaven but He craves the earth." "
— Anne Sexton

9 people liked it

"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: convictions, criticism
500 people liked it

"Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.'

'I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. There goes the shawl again!'"
— Lewis Carroll

tags: beliefs, breakfast, humor, impossible
280 people liked it

"I am too pure for you or anyone"
— Sylvia Plath (The Bell Jar)

tags: purity
19 people liked it

"I have stitched life into me like a rare organ"
— Sylvia Plath

tags: death, life, plath, sylvia
15 people liked it

"There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession"
— Daniel Webster

tags: inspirational
9 people liked it

"Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman's got to hold on to."
— Stephen King (Dolores Claiborne)

tags: bitch
192 people liked it

"I will not say, Do not weep, for not all tears are an evil. "
— J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: gandalf, grief
132 people liked it

"I feel more helpless with you than without you."
— Adrienne Rich

7 people liked it

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: life
4,482 people liked it

"Reality continues to ruin my life."
— Bill Watterson (The Complete Calvin and Hobbes)

tags: calvin-and-hobbes, humor, life
2,747 people liked it

"If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day."
— E.B. White

tags: activism, humor, life, pleasure
1,890 people liked it

"Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car."
— Garrison Keillor

tags: humor, religion
4,122 people liked it

"When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why god? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered, There's just something about you that pisses me off."
— Stephen King (Storm of the Century: An Original Screenplay)

tags: god, humor, religion
915 people liked it

"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross."
— Sinclair Lewis

tags: fascism, freedom, politics, religion
333 people liked it

"Yes, reason has been a part of organized religion, ever since two nudists took dietary advice from a talking snake."
— Jon Stewart

tags: humor, religion
336 people liked it

"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."
— Aldous Huxley

tags: fact, ignorance, truth
1,232 people liked it

"A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: belief, death, ideals, martyr, truth
793 people liked it

"Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace."
— Sylvia Plath (The Bell Jar)

tags: death, peace
407 people liked it

"I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again."
— Sylvia Plath

137 people liked it

"If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed."
— Sylvia Plath (The Bell Jar)

tags: expectations
105 people liked it

"I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it."
— Sylvia Plath (The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath)

66 people liked it

"There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends."
— Sylvia Plath (The Bell Jar)

59 people liked it

"I must be lean & write & make worlds beside this to live in."
— Sylvia Plath

tags: create, writer
15 people liked it

"Now I am silent, hate
Up to my neck,
Thick, thick.
I do not speak."
— Sylvia Plath (Ariel: The Restored Edition: A Facsimile of Plath's Manuscript, Reinstating Her Original Selection and Arrangement)

11 people liked it

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