--- title: "7 Awful Quotes By Sylvia Plath" description: "7 Awful quotes by Sylvia Plath. Plus more from Sylvia Plath and more Awful sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/75c/sylvia-plath-149_awful_it-won-t-happen-yet-ellen-mused-mashing_550236.jpg" --- > [It won't happen yet, Ellen mused, mashing cooked carrots for Jill's lunch. Breakups seldom do. It will unfold slowly, one little tell-tale…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/it-won-t-happen-yet-ellen-mused-mashing-cooked-carrots-for-jill-s/) [Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/75c/sylvia-plath-149_awful_it-won-t-happen-yet-ellen-mused-mashing_550236.jpg) > [It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/it-is-awful-to-want-to-go-away-and-to-want-to-go-nowhere/) [Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9ed/sylvia-plath-149_awful_it-is-awful-to-want-to-go-away-and-to-wa_1330453.jpg) > [Very depressed today. Unable to write a thing. Menacing gods. I feel outcast on a cold star, unable to feel anything but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/very-depressed-today-unable-to-write-a-thing-menacing-gods-i-feel/) [Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bb4/sylvia-plath-149_awful_very-depressed-today-unable-to-write-a-t_1385187.jpg) > [Sometimes I nursed starfish alive in jam jars of seawater and watched them grow back lost arms. On this day, this awful…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/sometimes-i-nursed-starfish-alive-in-jam-jars-of-seawater-and-watched/) [Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/743/sylvia-plath-149_alive_sometimes-i-nursed-starfish-alive-in-jam_1742601.jpg) > [Outcast on a cold star, unable to feel anything but an awful helpless numbness. I look down into the warm, earthy world.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/outcast-on-a-cold-star-unable-to-feel-anything-but-an-awful-helpless/) [Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/754/sylvia-plath-149_astronomy_outcast-on-a-cold-star-unable-to-feel-an_2181322.jpg) > [I had always imagined myself hitching up on to my elbows on the delivery table after it was all over - dead…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/i-had-always-imagined-myself-hitching-up-on-to-my-elbows-on-the/) [Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ba/sylvia-plath-149_awful_i-had-always-imagined-myself-hitching-up_2369604.jpg) > [This is newness: every little tawdry Obstacle glass-wrapped and peculiar, Glinting and clinking in a saint's falsetto. Only you Don't know what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/this-is-newness-every-little-tawdry-obstacle-glass-wrapped-and/) [Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/56a/sylvia-plath-149_awful_this-is-newness-every-little-tawdry-obst_2775757.jpg) ## Other authors on Awful ## More by Sylvia Plath > [“It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/it-was-a-queer-sultry-summer-the-summer-they-electrocuted-the/) [Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/) > [I love life. But it is hard and I have so much, so very much to learn.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/i-love-life-but-it-is-hard-and-i-have-so-much-so-very-much-to-learn/) [Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/) > [... These are my hands My knees. I may be skin and bone, Nevertheless, I am the same, identical woman. ... --Lady Lazarus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/these-are-my-hands-my-knees-i-may-be-skin-and-bone-nevertheless-i-am/) [Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/) > [Sure, I’m dramatic and sloppily semi-cynical and semi-sentimental. But, in leisure years I could grow and choose my way. Now I am living on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/sure-i-m-dramatic-and-sloppily-semi-cynical-and-semi-sentimental-but/) [Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/) > [“People were made of nothing so much as dust, and I couldn't see that doctoring all that dust was a bit better than writing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/people-were-made-of-nothing-so-much-as-dust-and-i-couldn-t-see-that/) [Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/) > [“I couldn't stand the idea of a woman having to have a single pure life and a man being able to have a double…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/i-couldn-t-stand-the-idea-of-a-woman-having-to-have-a-single-pure/) [Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/) > [I saw the gooseflesh on my skin. I did not know what made it. I was not cold. Had a ghost passed over? No,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/i-saw-the-gooseflesh-on-my-skin-i-did-not-know-what-made-it-i-was-not/) [Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/) > [I have to live my life, and it is the only one I’ll ever have.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/i-have-to-live-my-life-and-it-is-the-only-one-i-ll-ever-have/) [Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/) > [“The city had faded my tan, though. I looked yellow as a Chinaman. Ordinarily, I would have been nervous about my dress and my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/the-city-had-faded-my-tan-though-i-looked-yellow-as-a-chinaman/) [Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/) > [Joy:show joy & enjoy: then others will be joyful.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/joy-show-joy-enjoy-then-others-will-be-joyful/) [Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/) > [A million years of evolution, Eric said bitterly, and what are we? Animals.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/a-million-years-of-evolution-eric-said-bitterly-and-what-are-we/) [Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/) > [“I have stitched life into me like a rare organ --from "Three Women: A Poem for Three Voices", written 1962”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/i-have-stitched-life-into-me-like-a-rare-organ-from-three-women-a/) [Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/) > [It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/it-is-so-much-safer-not-to-feel-not-to-let-the-world-touch-me/) [Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/) > [“Flute Notes from a Reedy Pond" Now coldness comes sifting down, layer after layer, To our bower at the lily root. Overhead the old…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/flute-notes-from-a-reedy-pond-now-coldness-comes-sifting-down-layer/) [Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/) > [“The most saddening thing is to admit that I am not in love. I can only love (if that means self denial - or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/the-most-saddening-thing-is-to-admit-that-i-am-not-in-love-i-can-only/) [Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/awful/sylvia-plath/#itemlist", "name": "7 Awful Quotes By Sylvia Plath", "numberOfItems": 7, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "It won't happen yet, Ellen mused, mashing cooked carrots for Jill's lunch. Breakups seldom do. 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