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Sylvia Plath Quotes

Total quotes: 134
“I couldn’t see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (Modern Classics)
Tagged: Hopelessness, Depression, Sad
“I didn’t know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of my throat and I’d cry for a week.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
Tagged: Sadness
“Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath
Tagged: Motivational
“I do not know who I am, where I am going - and I am the one who has to decide the answers to these hideous questions.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath
Tagged: lost, Identity, Direction In Life
“If the moon smiled, she would resemble you. You leave the same impression
Of something beautiful, but annihilating.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Rival
Tagged: Attraction, Beautiful Quotes
“I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery — air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, 'This is what it is to be happy.'”
— Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
Tagged: Nature
“I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, this is what it is to be happy.”
— Sylvia Plath, Bell Jar
Tagged: Nature, beauty
“Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.”
— Sylvia Plath, Letters Home
Tagged: Mood
“I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Journals of Sylvia Plath
Tagged: Love, Acceptance, Giving, Loving someone back, Patience
“I think I'm in love with missing you more than I'm in love with you.”
— Sylvia Plath, via Amazon
Tagged: Missing Someone, Loving Someone, Love
“What did my fingers do before they held him?”
— Sylvia Plath, The Collected Poems
Tagged: Love, romance, Attraction, Falling In Love, poem, Poetry, Feelings, Feelings of Love
“I see everyone and no one in myself.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath
Tagged: self, Others
“I wanted to be where nobody I knew could ever come.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (Modern Classics)
Tagged: self, Alone
“Please, I want so badly for the good things to happen.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath
Tagged: Suffering
“I was supposed to be having the time of my life.”
— Sylvia Plath, Loving Sylvia Plath
Tagged: Regret, Disappointment
“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, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath
Tagged: Now, present, moment, the now, This Moment, Living, Life
“If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (Modern Classics)
Tagged: Hopelessness, Disappointment, Sad
“It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath
Tagged: Keeping Others Out
“I shut my eyes, and the music broke over me like a rainstorm.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
Tagged: Music, Art
“If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter - for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself. Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath
Tagged: comparison, Jealousy, Type 4, Self-Love, Self-Acceptance
“It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath
Tagged: travel, Leaving, Dissatisfaction, Wanderlust, restlessness
“I love people. Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his collection. Every story, every incident, every bit of conversation is raw material for me. My love’s not impersonal yet not wholly subjective either. I would like to be everyone, a cripple, a dying man, a [woman], and then come back to write about my thoughts, my emotions, as that person. But I am not omniscient. I have to live my life, and it is the only one I’ll ever have. And you cannot regard your own life with objective curiosity all the time”
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath
Tagged: Love, Passion, People, humanity
“And so it seems I must always write you letters that I can never send.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath
Tagged: Love Letters, Repression, Repressed Feelings, Sad Expression
“It is sad to be able to mouth other poets. I want someone to mouth me.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath
Tagged: Writing, Career, Poetry
“There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (Modern Classics)
Tagged: Friendship
“I don’t care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath
Tagged: Relationships, caring
“There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
Tagged: Best Friends, Friends, Friendship
“There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
Tagged: weird loving friendship, puke, Together, old friends, Friends
“I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.’”
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath
Tagged: Soul, Killing, Flesh
“I am afraid of getting older. I am afraid of getting married…Spare me from the relentless cage of routine and rote. I want to be free… I want, I want to think, to be omniscient.”
— Sylvia Plath, Letters Home
“I have given my heart away and I can’t take it back — it is like living without a heart.”
— Sylvia Plath, Letters Home: Correspondence 1950-1963
Tagged: Heartbroken, Empty, I Miss You, I Still Love You
“We should meet in another life, we should meet in air,
Me and you.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Collected Poems
Tagged: Love, romance, wrong timing in love, love in another life, poem, Poetry
“Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.”
— Sylvia Plath, The New Beacon Book of Quotations by Women
Tagged: Wants And Needs, Wanting, Yearning, Hoping
“I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath
Tagged: Plath
“So many people are shut up tight inside themselves like boxes, yet they would open up, unfolding quite wonderfully, if only you were interested in them.”
— Sylvia Plath, Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose, and Diary Excerpts
Tagged: The Shy Ones
“Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath
Tagged: Heartbreak, Sorrow, Art, Writing, Creativity
“Living with him is like being told a perpetual story: his mind is the biggest, most imaginative I have ever met. I could live in its growing countries forever.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath
Tagged: Relationships, Imagination, Infatuation
“His body fits with mine as if they were made in the same body-shop to do just that.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath
Tagged: Love, Bodies, Touch, Intimacy, cuddling
“Here I am, a bundle of past recollections and future dreams, knotted up in a reasonably attractive bundle of flesh.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath
Tagged: Life, humanity, Bodies, Future, Past, Dreams, Memories
“It's a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It's much easier to be somebody else.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath
Tagged: character, Personality, self, Identity
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