Quotes - Amanda (Vänersborg, 28, Sweden) Showing 1-30 of 197

#1

“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

tags: coldness, depression, happiness, life, sad, sadness, sorrow

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#2

“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
― Mark Twain

tags: death, life

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#3

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#4

“If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

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#5

“Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.”
― sylvia plath

tags: goals

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#6

“Is there no way out of the mind?”
― Sylvia Plath

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#7

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

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#8

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

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#9

“The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

tags: creativity, self-confidence, self-doubt

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#10

“And the danger is that in this move toward new horizons and far directions, that I may lose what I have now, and not find anything except loneliness.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

tags: alone, leaving, moving

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#11

“I know pretty much what I like and dislike; but please, don't ask me who I am.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

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#12

“It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

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#13

“The only way to overcome sadness is to consume it. ”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated

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#14

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

tags: essential, happiness, love

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#15

“I want to taste and glory in each day, and never be afraid to experience pain; and never shut myself up in a numb core of nonfeeling, or stop questioning and criticizing life and take the easy way out. To learn and think: to think and live; to live and learn: this always, with new insight, new understanding, and new love.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

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#16

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

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#17

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

tags: frailty, human-heart, thought

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#18

“I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.”
― Sylvia Plath , The Collected Poems

tags: dark, sleep, soul, sylvia-plath

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#19

“The truth comes to me. The truth loves me.”
― Sylvia Plath

tags: truth

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#20

“Not everything that's true needs to be said.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

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#21

“How weightless
words are when nothing will do.”
― Philip Levine, Breath

tags: poetry, words

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#22

“Letting go doesn't mean that you don't care about someone anymore. It's just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.”
― Deborah Reber, Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul: 101 Stories of Life, Love and Learning

tags: acceptance, letting-go, love, moving-on

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#23