--- title: "2 Bathtub Quotes By Sylvia Plath" description: "2 Bathtub quotes by Sylvia Plath. Plus more from Sylvia Plath and more Bathtub sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8db/sylvia-plath-149_bath_there-must-be-quite-a-few-things-a-hot-b_544405.jpg" --- > [“There must be quite a few things a hot bath won’t cure, but I don’t know many of them. Whenever I’m sad I’m going to die, or so nervous I can’t sleep, or in love with somebody I won’t be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/there-must-be-quite-a-few-things-a-hot-bath-won-t-cure-but-i-don-t/) [Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8db/sylvia-plath-149_bath_there-must-be-quite-a-few-things-a-hot-b_544405.jpg) > [“I never feel so much myself as when I'm in a hot bath. I lay in that tub on the seventeenth floor of this hotel for-women-only, high up over the jazz and push of New York, for near onto an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/i-never-feel-so-much-myself-as-when-i-m-in-a-hot-bath-i-lay-in-that/) [Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c67/sylvia-plath-149_bathtub_i-never-feel-so-much-myself-as-when-i-m_2800109.jpg) ## Other authors on Bathtub ## 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/bathtub/sylvia-plath/#itemlist", "name": "2 Bathtub Quotes By Sylvia Plath", "numberOfItems": 2, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“There must be quite a few things a hot bath won’t cure, but I don’t know many of them. Whenever I’m sad I’m going to die, or so nervous I can’t sleep, or in love with somebody I won’t be seeing for a week, I slump down just so far and then I say: 'I’ll go take a hot bath.' I meditate in the bath.The water needs to be very hot, so hot you can barely stand putting your foot in it. Then you lower yourself, inch by inch, till the water’s up to your neck. I remember the ceiling over every bathtub I’ve stretched out in. I remember the texture of the ceilings and the cracks and the colors and the damp spots and the light fixtures. I remember the tubs, too: the antique griffin-legged tubs, and the modern coffin-shaped tubs, and the fancy pink marble tubs overlooking indoor lily ponds, and I remember the shapes and sizes of the water taps and the different sorts of soap holders. I never feel so much myself as when I’m in a hot bath.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Sylvia Plath" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/there-must-be-quite-a-few-things-a-hot-bath-won-t-cure-but-i-don-t/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8db/sylvia-plath-149_bath_there-must-be-quite-a-few-things-a-hot-b_544405.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8db/sylvia-plath-149_bath_there-must-be-quite-a-few-things-a-hot-b_544405.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8db/sylvia-plath-149_bath_there-must-be-quite-a-few-things-a-hot-b_544405.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“There must be quite a few things a hot bath won’t cure, but I don’t know many of them. Whenever I’m sad I’m…” — Sylvia Plath", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“I never feel so much myself as when I'm in a hot bath. I lay in that tub on the seventeenth floor of this hotel for-women-only, high up over the jazz and push of New York, for near onto an hour, and I felt myself growing pure again. I don't believe in baptism or the waters of Jordan or anything like that, but I guess I feel about a hot bath the way those religious people feel about holy water.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Sylvia Plath" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/i-never-feel-so-much-myself-as-when-i-m-in-a-hot-bath-i-lay-in-that/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c67/sylvia-plath-149_bathtub_i-never-feel-so-much-myself-as-when-i-m_2800109.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c67/sylvia-plath-149_bathtub_i-never-feel-so-much-myself-as-when-i-m_2800109.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c67/sylvia-plath-149_bathtub_i-never-feel-so-much-myself-as-when-i-m_2800109.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I never feel so much myself as when I'm in a hot bath. I lay in that tub on the seventeenth floor of this…” — Sylvia Plath", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bathtub/sylvia-plath/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bathtub/sylvia-plath/", "name": "Bathtub Quotes by Sylvia Plath", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bathtub/sylvia-plath/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8db/sylvia-plath-149_bath_there-must-be-quite-a-few-things-a-hot-b_544405.jpg" }, "description": "2 Bathtub quotes by Sylvia Plath. Plus more from Sylvia Plath and more Bathtub sayings from other authors.", "breadcrumb": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bathtub/sylvia-plath/#breadcrumb" } }, { "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bathtub/sylvia-plath/#breadcrumb", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Quotes", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "Topics", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/categories/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "Bathtub", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bathtub/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 5, "name": "Sylvia Plath", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bathtub/sylvia-plath/" } ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website", "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/", "publisher": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } }, { "@type": "Organization", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization", "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/themes/sq/assets/icons/icon-512.png", "width": 512, "height": 512 } } ] } ```