Sylvia Plath Quotes

I would like to be soft and warm. I would be terrified to be that way. I could be hurt if I were soft and warm. I could be hurt by something other than myself. It is harder to be soft than it is to be hard. I could be hurt by something other than myself.

You're so afraid of being hurt that you attack first. Only those who really care about you will weather the assault of your verbal attacks and stay. The rest will fall away.

As a kid, I would push my shoulders forward in order to hide my heart from being hurt.

You don't want to let on how hurt you are because some people will see that as a sign of weakness, they might use it against you.

I've figured out over the years, you can only hurt me if I love you; if I don't know you, I really don't care.

It used to hurt me when people said I was hiding in Wales.

They can't hurt me. I'm not like the rest of you. There's no one left I love.

Inevitably, anytime we are too vulnerable we feel the need to protect ourselves from further wounds. So we resort to sarcasm, cutting humor, criticism - anything that will keep from exposing the tenderness within. Each partner tends to wait on the initiative of the other for love, only to be disappointed but also confirmed as to the rightness of the accusations made.

I am a grenade," I said again. "I just want to stay away from people and read books and think and be with you guys because there's nothing I can do about hurting you: You're too invested, so just please let me do that, okay? "I'm going to go to my room and read for awhile, okay? I'm fine. I really am fine: I just want to go read for a while.

Don't let anyone see your vulnerable spots. Once they knew how to hurt you, they would do it again and again.

She had always maintained a cynical facade, using it as a defence against embarrassment, fear, loneliness… but at the moment she felt unusually vulnerable.

Now, is it possible not to be hurt at all? Because the consequences of being hurt are the building of a wall around oneself, withdrawing in one's relationship with others in order not to be hurt more. In that there is fear and a gradual isolation. Now, we are asking: Is it possible not only to be free of past hurts but also never to be hurt again?

It is a mistake to think you cant be hurt if you don't care

The primary nature of every human being is to be open to life and love. Being guarded, armoured, distrustful and enclosed is second nature in our culture. It is the means we adopt to protect ourselves against being hurt, but when such attitudes become characterological or structured in the personality, they constitute a more severe hurt and create a greater crippling than the one originally suffered.

I'm a woman who carries around all these layers of fear and vulnerability.

I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry.

Among the reasons people keep sad stories to themselves is that they do not want anyone to feel sorry for them. I don't. I don't want you to feel sorry for me.

After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.

Like most people, I can be very easily hurt.

I just get really defensive as soon as anyone comes near my personal life. I made a decision early on that it's strictly off-limits. No exceptions.

It's easier to shut yourself off outside than reveal your inner thoughts.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

If you are a card-carrying human being, chances are that you share the same fear as all other humans: the fear of losing love, respect and connection to others. And if you are human, in order to avoid or prevent the pain, trauma and perceived devastation of the loss, you will do anything to avoid your greatest fear from being visited on you.

I have reason to be shy. I've been hurt plenty.

Why should I? No one would wish to hurt me.