Thinking Quotes by Sylvia Plath

I think I may well be a Jew.

— Sylvia Plath

If I didn’t think, I’d be much happier.

— Sylvia Plath

I am what I feel and think and do.

— Sylvia Plath

If I rest, if I think inward, I go mad.

— Sylvia Plath

I think I am mad sometimes.

— Sylvia Plath

I think I made you up inside my head.

— Sylvia Plath

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

— Sylvia Plath

The only thing I could think of was turkey neck and turkey gizzards and I felt very depressed.

— Sylvia Plath

So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.

— Sylvia Plath

I am sure there are things that can't be cured by a good bath but I can't think of one.

— Sylvia Plath

I smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists

— Sylvia Plath

Winter is for women The woman still at her knitting, At the cradle of Spanish walnut, Her body a bulb in the…

— Sylvia Plath

I fancied you'd return the way you said, But I grow old and I forget your name. (I think I made you…

— Sylvia Plath

To learn and think; to think and live; to live and learn: this always, with new insight, new understanding, and new love.

— Sylvia Plath

I think writers are the most narcissistic people. Well, I musn't say this, I like many of them, a great many of…

— Sylvia Plath

Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking,…

— Sylvia Plath

I am flushed and warm. I think I may be enormous, I am so stupidly happy, My wellingtons Squelching and squelching through…

— Sylvia Plath

I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane. (I think I made you up…

— Sylvia Plath

I think I am worthwhile just because I have optical nerves and can try to put down what they perceive. What a…

— Sylvia Plath

I think that as far as language goes I'm an American, I'm afraid, my accent is American, my way of talk is…

— Sylvia Plath

I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem, when I'm writing one. Having written one, then you fall away…

— Sylvia Plath

If you have no past or no future, which, after all, is all that the present is made of, why then you…

— Sylvia Plath

..I fancied you'd return the way you said, But I grow old and I forget your name. (I think I made you…

— Sylvia Plath

I do feel that now and I feel that this development of recording poems, of speaking poems at readings, of having records…

— Sylvia Plath

I want to taste and glory in each day, and never be afraid to experience pain; and never shut myself up in…

— 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

Ironically, Henry James' biography comforts me & I long to make known to him his posthumous reputation he wrote, in pain, gave…

— Sylvia Plath

I think the whole emphasis in England, in universities, on practical criticism (but not that so much as on historical criticism, knowing…

— Sylvia Plath

And, I think: I am but one more drop in the great sea of matter, defined, with the ability to realize my…

— Sylvia Plath

Strange, when one thinks of all the other boys, infinite experimental kisses, test tube infatuations, crushes, pseudo-loves. All through this physical separation,…

— Sylvia Plath

I think if I had done anything else I would like to have been a doctor. This is the sort of polar…

— Sylvia Plath

I began to think vodka was my drink at last. It didn’t taste like anything, but it went straight down into my…

— Sylvia Plath

So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed,…

— Sylvia Plath

I am jealous of those who think more deeply, who write better, who draw better, who ski better, who look better, who…

— Sylvia Plath

And if you have no past or future which, after all, is all that the present is made of, why then you…

— Sylvia Plath

I can't think logically about who I am or where I am going. I have been very ecstatic, horribly depressed, shocked, elated,…

— Sylvia Plath

I think the coming of spring, the stars overhead, the first snowfall and so on are gifts for a child, a young…

— Sylvia Plath

If I didn't think, I'd be much happier; if I didn't have any sex organs, I wouldn't waver on the brink of…

— Sylvia Plath

My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.

— Sylvia Plath

It seemed silly to wash one day when I would only have to wash again the next. It made me tired just…

— Sylvia Plath