Terah Magerstaedt's favorite quotes

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

tags: importance, kiss, kissing

"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

366 people liked it

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

128 people liked it

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

114 people liked it

"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

96 people liked it

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

tags: expectations

90 people liked it

"There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but i don't know many of them."
— Sylvia Plath

tags: baths

80 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

56 people liked it

"If the moon smiled, she would resemble you.
You leave the same impression
Of something beautiful, but annihilating."
— Sylvia Plath (Ariel: The Restored Edition: A Facsimile of Plath's Manuscript, Reinstating Her Original Selection and Arrangement)

51 people liked it

"How we need another soul to cling to."
— Sylvia Plath

49 people liked it

"Out of the ash I rise with my red hair
and I eat men like air."
— Sylvia Plath (Ariel: The Restored Edition: A Facsimile of Plath's Manuscript, Reinstating Her Original Selection and Arrangement)

45 people liked it

"We should meet in another life, we should meet in air,
Me and you."
— Sylvia Plath (Ariel: The Restored Edition: A Facsimile of Plath's Manuscript, Reinstating Her Original Selection and Arrangement)

27 people liked it

"I have taken a pill to kill
The thin
Papery feeling."
— Sylvia Plath (Ariel: The Restored Edition: A Facsimile of Plath's Manuscript, Reinstating Her Original Selection and Arrangement)

17 people liked it

"I used to pray to recover you."
— Sylvia Plath (Ariel: The Restored Edition: A Facsimile of Plath's Manuscript, Reinstating Her Original Selection and Arrangement)

15 people liked it

"How frail the human heart must be -- a mirrored pool of thought. "
— Sylvia Plath

17 people liked it

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

tags: purity

16 people liked it

"No day is safe from news of you."
— Sylvia Plath (Ariel: The Restored Edition: A Facsimile of Plath's Manuscript, Reinstating Her Original Selection and Arrangement)

9 people liked it

"I am I am I am."
— Sylvia Plath (The Bell Jar)

10 people liked it

"So much working, reading, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough."
— Sylvia Plath

tags: life, plath

8 people liked it

"I want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same."
— Sylvia Plath

11 people liked it

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

7 people liked it

"The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
"
— Sylvia Plath

8 people liked it

"The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it. "
— Sylvia Plath

7 people liked it

"Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be."
— Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia)

tags: wish

201 people liked it

"Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions."
— Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia)

tags: emotions, life, spiritual

80 people liked it

"To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced
life."
— Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia)

tags: love

73 people liked it

"Operation Self-Esteem--Day Fucking One."
— Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia)

52 people liked it

"Tis' better to live your own life imperfectly than to imitate someone else's perfectly."
— Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia)

tags: life

49 people liked it

"I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water."
— Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia)

tags: religion

42 people liked it

"I think I deserve something beautiful."
— Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia)

35 people liked it

"You are, after all, what you think. Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions."
— Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia)

tags: inspirational, thoughtful

15 people liked it

"eventually, everything goes away."
— Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia)

tags: life

15 people liked it

"This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something. "
— Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia)

tags: heartache, love

30 people liked it

"We don't realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme self who is eternally at peace."
— Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia)

8 people liked it

"God is an experience of supreme love."
— Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia)

4 people liked it

"Only the young and stupid are confident about sex and romance."
— Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia)

3 people liked it

"And in that moment, I swear we were infinite."
— Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)

tags: infinity

332 people liked it

"So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be."
— Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)

250 people liked it

"I would die for you. But I won't live for you."
— Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)

126 people liked it

"Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody."
— Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)

122 people liked it

"I am very interested and fascinated how everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each other."
— Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)

118 people liked it

"It was the kind of kiss that made
me know that I was never so happy in my whole life."
— Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)

52 people liked it

"Insanity is contagious."
— Joseph Heller (Catch-22)

37 people liked it

"You can't let crazy people tell you you're crazy"
— Catch 22

tags: movie

38 people liked it

"...[A]nything worth dying for ... is certainly worth living for."
— Joseph Heller (Catch-22)

32 people liked it

"Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you"
— Joseph Heller

tags: 22, catch

24 people liked it

"She was the epitome of stately sorrow each time she smiled. "
— Joseph Heller (Catch 22)

5 people liked it

"where are the snowdens of yesteryear?"
— Joseph Heller (Catch-22)

7 people liked it

"'Prostitution gives her an opportunity to meet people. It provides fresh air and wholesome exercise, and it keeps her out of trouble.""
— Joseph Heller (Catch-22)

5 people liked it

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