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title: "9 Mad Quotes By Sylvia Plath"
description: "9 Mad quotes by Sylvia Plath. Plus more from Sylvia Plath and more Mad sayings from other authors."
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> [I think I am mad sometimes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/i-think-i-am-mad-sometimes/)

[Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2f2/sylvia-plath-149_mad_i-think-i-am-mad-sometimes-3130324_3130324.jpg)

> [If I rest, if I think inward, I go mad.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/if-i-rest-if-i-think-inward-i-go-mad/)

[Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/148/sylvia-plath-149_ifs_if-i-rest-if-i-think-inward-i-go-mad-518_51805.jpg)

> [Dying Is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/dying-is-an-art-like-everything-else-i-do-it-exceptionally-well/)

[Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c52/sylvia-plath-149_aging_dying-is-an-art-like-everything-else-i-d_1686624.jpg)

> [I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/i-have-the-choice-of-being-constantly-active-and-happy-or/)

[Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/)

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> [The only reason I remembered this play was because it had a mad person in it, and everything I had ever read…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/the-only-reason-i-remembered-this-play-was-because-it-had-a-mad/)

[Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/07f/sylvia-plath-149_flew_the-only-reason-i-remembered-this-play-w_709505.jpg)

> [...we shall board our imagined ship and wildly sail among sacred islands of the mad till death shatters the fabulous stars and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/we-shall-board-our-imagined-ship-and-wildly-sail-among-sacred-islands-2/)

[Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/667/sylvia-plath-149_boards_we-shall-board-our-imagined-ship-and-wil_2745001.jpg)

> [I am gone quite mad with the knowledge of accepting the overwhelming number of things I can never know, places I can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/i-am-gone-quite-mad-with-the-knowledge-of-accepting-the-overwhelming/)

[Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/17e/sylvia-plath-149_accepting_i-am-gone-quite-mad-with-the-knowledge-o_2483704.jpg)

> [In this particular tub, two knees jut up like icebergs, while minute brown hairs rise on arms and legs in a fringe…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/in-this-particular-tub-two-knees-jut-up-like-icebergs-while-minute-2/)

[Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/)

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> [I feel, am mad as any writer must in one way be; why not make it real? I am too close to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/i-feel-am-mad-as-any-writer-must-in-one-way-be-why-not-make-it-real-i/)

[Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/627/sylvia-plath-149_community_i-feel-am-mad-as-any-writer-must-in-one_2831733.jpg)

## Other authors on Mad

## 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/)

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