Psychology Quotes by Sylvia Plath

Is there no way out of the mind?

— Sylvia Plath

“This is the light of the mind, cold and planetary.”

— Sylvia Plath

I get into a rut, unable to yank my mind out of it.

— Sylvia Plath

The thought that I might kill myself formed in my mind coolly as a tree or a flower.

— Sylvia Plath

Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams.

— Sylvia Plath

The body is amazingly stubborn when it comes to sacrificing itself to the annihilating directions of the mind.

— Sylvia Plath

“Through the mind like an oyster labors on and on, / A grain of sand is all we have”

— Sylvia Plath

“My mind slipped from the noose of the thought and swung like a bird, in the center of empty air.”

— Sylvia Plath

I'm never going to get married." "You're crazy." Buddy brightened. "You'll change your mind." "No. My mind's made up.

— Sylvia Plath

This is the light of the mind, cold and planetary. The trees of the mind are black. The light is blue.

— Sylvia Plath

One should be able to control and manipulate experiences with an informed and intelligent mind.

— Sylvia Plath

I want to force myself again and again to leave the warmth and security of static situations and move into the world…

— Sylvia Plath

“The shadow in my mind lengthened with the night blotting out our half of the world, and beyond it; the whole globe…

— Sylvia Plath

What I didn't say was that each time I picked up a German dictionary or a German book, the very sight of…

— Sylvia Plath

The only reason I remembered this play was because it had a mad person in it, and everything I had ever read…

— Sylvia Plath

I felt dumb and subdued. Every time I tried to concentrate, my mind glided off, like a skater, into a large empty…

— Sylvia Plath

My mother's face floated to mind, a pale, reproachful moon, at her last and first visit to the asylum since my twentieth…

— Sylvia Plath

I believe that one should be able to control and manipulate experiences, even the most terrifying, like madness, being tortured...with an informed…

— Sylvia Plath

“You fool – you are afraid of being alone with you own mind. You just better learn to know yourself, to make…

— Sylvia Plath

Pretty soon, the only doubt in my mind was the precise time and method of committing suicide. The only alternative I could…

— Sylvia Plath

“The human mind is so limited it can only build an arbitrary heaven — and usually the physical comforts they endow it…

— Sylvia Plath

What do you have in mind after you graduate?" What I always thought I had in mind was getting some big scholarship…

— Sylvia Plath

“My mind is, to use a disgustingly obvious simile, like a wastebasket full of waste paper; bits of hair, and rotting apple…

— Sylvia Plath

“Is that life after death — mind living on paper and flesh living in offspring?”

— Sylvia Plath

Winter dawn is the color of metal, The trees stiffen into place like burnt nerves.

— Sylvia Plath

“My skin is broken out from subconscious anxiety and tension, self-induced. Nothing is more difficult than lashing a vagrant mind suddenly into…

— Sylvia Plath

“A time of darkness, despair, disillusion-so black only the inferno of the human mind can be-symbolic death, and numb shock-then the painful…

— Sylvia Plath

Living with him is like being told a perpetual story: his mind is the biggest, most imaginative I have ever met. I…

— Sylvia Plath

What I want back is what I was Before the bed, before the knife, Before the brooch-pin and the salve Fixed me…

— Sylvia Plath