If they substituted the word ‘Lust’ for ‘Love’ in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth.
– Sylvia Plath
Related Quotes:
- This is a case without a body.The body does not come into it at all. – Sylvia Plath
- Who was it had said when you fall in love all the popular songs suddenly seemed to mean something. – Dolores Hitchens
- All that is popular is not always right. All that is right is also not always popular. Somewhere in between, lies all that is real! – rajuda
- The things that are most popular are usually rubbish, stand up for what’s important, not popular. – Alan Moore
- The things that are most popular are usually rubbish, stand up for what’s important, not popular. – Alan Moore
- Sadly we live in a society where it is more popular to be popular than to be honorable, audacious and worthy. – Sravani Saha Nakhro
- I love the people,’ I said. ‘I have room in me for love, and for ever so many little lives. – Sylvia Plath
- All the material wealth cannot be substituted for the spiritual, physical, emotion and mental well-being. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Lust arrives as an angel disguised as love, but it’s still lust, not love. – Scarlet Risque
- I’m not sure why it is, but I love food more than just about anything else. – Sylvia Plath
- It’s true-”there are only, like, two songs about rainbows, including that one. He should be asking why there are so few songs about rainbows. – Cheryl Cory
- The songs of our ancestors are also the songs of our children – Philip CarrGomm
- Songs are dangerous, songs are subversive and can change your life. – Ronnie Gilbert
- The songs were all either fast or sad. Because all songs should be either fast or sad. – Rob Sheffield
- Some songs are never just ordinary songs, they become the memories you collect in your life. – Seekerohan
- Great songs don’t grow on trees, yet lots of songs have been written on great trees – Benny Bellamacina
- The word of lust touches the body, the word of love touches the soul: feed the soul and starve the body. – Michael Bassey Johnson
- The fact that he and she understood each other without a word seemed to bring them nearer than any explanation would have done. – Edith Wharton
- God gave us His Word so we could know truth. His truth. The whole truth. And nothing but the truth. – Patty Houser
- We have conversations with each other most nights – Sylvia Plath and me! – Avijeet Das
- Sylvia Plath and I met a long time ago. A really long time ago. Was it a summer day? No! It was a wintry November morning! – Avijeet Das
- We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you. – Sylvia Plath
- I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me. – Sylvia Plath
- What is so real as the cry of a child?A rabbit’s cry may be wilderBut it has no soul. – Sylvia Plath
- A little thing, like children putting flowers in my hair, can fill up the widening cracks in my self-assurance like soothing lanolin. – Sylvia Plath
- The worst enemy to creativity is self doubt – Sylvia Plath
- When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn’t know. – Sylvia Plath
- I could feel the tears brimming and sloshing in me like water in a glass that is unsteady and too full. – Sylvia Plath
- The one thing I was good at was winning scholarships and prizes, and that era was coming to an end. – Sylvia Plath
- You will never win anyone through pity. You must create the right kind of dream, the sober, adult kind of magic: illusion born from disillusion. – Sylvia Plath
- Its snaky acids kiss.It petrifies the will. These are the isolate, slow faults That kill, that kill, that kill. – Sylvia Plath
- I think writers are the most narcissistic people. Well, I musn’t say this, I like many of them, a great many of my friends are writers. – Sylvia Plath
- All I want is blackness. Blackness and silence. – Sylvia Plath
- The silence between us was so profound I thought part of it must be my fault. – Sylvia Plath
- I must be lean & write & make worlds beside this to live in. – Sylvia Plath
- I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am. – Sylvia Plath
- How frail the human heart must be-•a mirrored pool of thought. – Sylvia Plath
- Kiss me, and you will see how important I am. – Sylvia Plath
- Slowly I swam up from the bottom of a black sleep. – Sylvia Plath
- I cut you out because I couldn’t stand being a passing fancy. – Sylvia Plath