--- title: "12 Empty Quotes By Sylvia Plath" description: "12 Empty quotes by Sylvia Plath. Plus more from Sylvia Plath and more Empty sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c86/sylvia-plath-149_doubt_i-talk-to-god-but-the-sky-is-empty-45270_452706.jpg" --- > [I talk to God but the sky is empty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/i-talk-to-god-but-the-sky-is-empty/) [Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c86/sylvia-plath-149_doubt_i-talk-to-god-but-the-sky-is-empty-45270_452706.jpg) > [I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/i-felt-very-still-and-empty-the-way-the-eye-of-a-tornado-must-feel/) [Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7ba/sylvia-plath-149_being-a-woman_i-felt-very-still-and-empty-the-way-the_1717952.jpg) > [I need some older, wiser being to cry to. I talk to God, but the sky is empty, and Orion walks by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/i-need-some-older-wiser-being-to-cry-to-i-talk-to-god-but-the-sky-is-2/) [Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/477/sylvia-plath-149_cry_i-need-some-older-wiser-being-to-cry-to_1225470.jpg) > [I didn’t want any flowers, I only wanted to lie with my hands turned up and be utterly empty. How free it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/i-didn-t-want-any-flowers-i-only-wanted-to-lie-with-my-hands-turned-3/) [Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a94/sylvia-plath-149_being-a-woman_i-didn-t-want-any-flowers-i-only-wanted_1756335.jpg) > [There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/there-is-a-certain-unique-and-strange-delight-about-walking-down-an/) [Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e4d/sylvia-plath-149_certain_there-is-a-certain-unique-and-strange-de_822007.jpg) > [And if you have no past or future which, after all, is all that the present is made of, why then you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/and-if-you-have-no-past-or-future-which-after-all-is-all-that-the/) [Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a91/sylvia-plath-149_cold_and-if-you-have-no-past-or-future-which_1713246.jpg) > [I felt dumb and subdued. Every time I tried to concentrate, my mind glided off, like a skater, into a large empty…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/i-felt-dumb-and-subdued-every-time-i-tried-to-concentrate-my-mind/) [Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2d7/sylvia-plath-149_dumb_i-felt-dumb-and-subdued-every-time-i-tri_943600.jpg) > [There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone. There is an off-focus light cast by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/there-is-a-certain-unique-and-strange-delight-about-walking-down-an-2/) [Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a1c/sylvia-plath-149_casts_there-is-a-certain-unique-and-strange-de_1505537.jpg) > [I may never be happy, but tonight I am content. Nothing more than an empty house, the warm hazy weariness from a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/i-may-never-be-happy-but-tonight-i-am-content-nothing-more-than-an/) [Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4c8/sylvia-plath-149_blueberries_i-may-never-be-happy-but-tonight-i-am-co_2343526.jpg) > [I didn’t want any flowers, I only wanted To lie with my hands turned up and be utterly empty. How free it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/i-didn-t-want-any-flowers-i-only-wanted-to-lie-with-my-hands-turned-2/) [Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/86e/sylvia-plath-149_asks_i-didn-t-want-any-flowers-i-only-wanted_902620.jpg) > [I can't deceive myself out of the bare stark realization that no matter how enthusiastic you are, no matter how sure that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/i-can-t-deceive-myself-out-of-the-bare-stark-realization-that-no/) [Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2ce/sylvia-plath-149_brilliance_i-can-t-deceive-myself-out-of-the-bare-s_1617950.jpg) > [If you have no past or no future, which, after all, is all that the present is made of, why then you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/if-you-have-no-past-or-no-future-which-after-all-is-all-that-the/) [Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/af6/sylvia-plath-149_cold_if-you-have-no-past-or-no-future-which-a_244149.jpg) ## Other authors on Empty ## 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/empty/sylvia-plath/#itemlist", "name": "12 Empty Quotes By Sylvia Plath", "numberOfItems": 12, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I talk to God but the sky is empty.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Sylvia Plath" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/i-talk-to-god-but-the-sky-is-empty/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c86/sylvia-plath-149_doubt_i-talk-to-god-but-the-sky-is-empty-45270_452706.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c86/sylvia-plath-149_doubt_i-talk-to-god-but-the-sky-is-empty-45270_452706.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c86/sylvia-plath-149_doubt_i-talk-to-god-but-the-sky-is-empty-45270_452706.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I talk to God but the sky is empty.” — Sylvia Plath", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Sylvia Plath" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/i-felt-very-still-and-empty-the-way-the-eye-of-a-tornado-must-feel/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7ba/sylvia-plath-149_being-a-woman_i-felt-very-still-and-empty-the-way-the_1717952.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7ba/sylvia-plath-149_being-a-woman_i-felt-very-still-and-empty-the-way-the_1717952.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7ba/sylvia-plath-149_being-a-woman_i-felt-very-still-and-empty-the-way-the_1717952.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the…” — Sylvia Plath", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I need some older, wiser being to cry to. 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