If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at…

Because wherever I saton the deck of a ship or at a street café in Paris or BangkokI would be sitting under the same…

— Superman

because wherever I sat—on the deck of a ship or at a street café in Paris or Bangkok—I would be sitting under the same…

— Sylvia Plath

I once met an economist who believed that everything was fungible for money, so I suggested he enclose himself in a large bell-jar with…

— Amory Lovins

Religion is a bell jar; you cannot find God in that jar, because it is your bell jar, you have created it! Break the…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

It was like the first time i saw a cadaver. For weeks afterward the cadavers head, or what was left of it - floated…

— Sylvia Plath

“...it wouldn't have made one scrap of difference to me, because wherever I sat - on the deck of a ship or at a…

— Sylvia Plath

“To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is the bad dream. A bad dream.…

— Sylvia Plath

“Ready for a new life”

— Sylvia Plath

My garden is the most beautiful thing in the world.

— Josephine de Beauharnais

There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person…

— Sylvia Plath

“Life was not to be sitting in hot amorphic leisure in my backyard idly writing or not-writing, as the spirit moved me. It was,…

— Sylvia Plath

An unfree mind is just like a windmill inside the bell jar!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

I need more than anything right now what is, of course, most impossible, someone to love me, to be with me at night when…

— Sylvia Plath

I read The Bell Jar, and then I read her memoir and her diaries, and a third book, an outside opinion. Just the way…

— Paul Westerberg

I collected men with interesting names. I already knew a Socrates. He was tall and ugly and intellectual and the son of some big…

— Sylvia Plath