Fear Quotes by Sylvia Plath

Talking about my fears to others feeds it.

— Sylvia Plath

I do not fear it: I have been there.

— Sylvia Plath

What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.

— Sylvia Plath

The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

— Sylvia Plath

My worst habit is my fear & my destructive rationalizing.

— Sylvia Plath

The hardest thing is to live richly in the present without letting it be tainted out of fear for the future or…

— Sylvia Plath

“I’m not afraid of being lost. We all wander off from time to time. It’s the fear of never quite finding myself…

— Sylvia Plath

I am afraid. I am not solid, but hollow. I feel behind my eyes a numb, paralyzed cavern, a pit of hell,…

— Sylvia Plath

What is my life for and what am I going to do with it? I don't know and I'm afraid.

— Sylvia Plath

I know the bottom, she says. I know it with my great tap root: It is what you fear. I do not…

— Sylvia Plath

I am terrified by this dark thing That sleeps in me; All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity.

— Sylvia Plath

“I am afraid of getting older. I am afraid of getting married. Spare me from cooking three meals a day, spare me…

— Sylvia Plath

Now I know what loneliness is, I think. Momentary loneliness, anyway. It comes from a vague core of the self - -…

— Sylvia Plath

“I am afraid of getting older...I am afraid of getting married. Spare me from cooking three meals a day — spare me…

— Sylvia Plath

“What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination… If I sit still and don't do anything, the world…

— Sylvia Plath

I have done, this year, what I said I would: overcome my fear of facing a blank page day after day, acknowledging…

— Sylvia Plath

I only know that a rook Ordering its black feathers can so shine As to seize me senses, haul My eyelids up,…

— Sylvia Plath

All the heat and fear had purged itself. I felt surprisingly at peace. The bell jar hung suspended a few feet above…

— Sylvia Plath

“I am climbing to my freedom, freedom from fear, freedom from marrying the wrong person, like Buddy Willard, just because of sex,…

— Sylvia Plath

“I am afraid. I am not solid, but hollow. I feel behind my eyes a numb, paralyzed cavern, a pit of hell,…

— Sylvia Plath

In a rabbit-fear I may hurl myself under the wheels of the car because the lights terrify me, and under the dark…

— Sylvia Plath

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

— Sylvia Plath

I am afraid of getting older … I am afraid of getting married. Spare me from cooking three meals a day—spare me…

— Sylvia Plath

Let's face it: I'm scared, scared and frozen. First, I guess I'm afraid for myself... the old primitive urge for survival. It's…

— Sylvia Plath

“My world falls apart, crumbles, “The centre cannot hold.” There is no integrating force, only the naked fear, the urge of self-preservation.…

— Sylvia Plath