--- title: "7 Tired Quotes By Sylvia Plath" description: "7 Tired quotes by Sylvia Plath. Plus more from Sylvia Plath and more Tired sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c79/sylvia-plath-149_blind_in-a-rabbit-fear-i-may-hurl-myself-under_436318.jpg" --- > [In a rabbit-fear I may hurl myself under the wheels of the car because the lights terrify me, and under the dark…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/in-a-rabbit-fear-i-may-hurl-myself-under-the-wheels-of-the-car/) [Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c79/sylvia-plath-149_blind_in-a-rabbit-fear-i-may-hurl-myself-under_436318.jpg) > [It seemed silly to wash one day when I would only have to wash again the next. It made me tired just…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/it-seemed-silly-to-wash-one-day-when-i-would-only-have-to-wash-again/) [Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/acd/sylvia-plath-149_depression_it-seemed-silly-to-wash-one-day-when-i-w_709157.jpg) > [I have this demon who wants me to run away screaming if I am going to be flawed, fallible. It wants me…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/i-have-this-demon-who-wants-me-to-run-away-screaming-if-i-am-going-to/) [Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d83/sylvia-plath-149_contrary_i-have-this-demon-who-wants-me-to-run-aw_741084.jpg) > [I feel occasionally my skull will crack, fatigue is continuous - I only go from less exhausted to more exhausted & back again.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/i-feel-occasionally-my-skull-will-crack-fatigue-is-continuous-i-only/) [Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bf0/sylvia-plath-149_cracks_i-feel-occasionally-my-skull-will-crack_1527268.jpg) > [I wonder why I don't go to bed and go to sleep. But then it would be tomorrow, so I decide that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/i-wonder-why-i-don-t-go-to-bed-and-go-to-sleep-but-then-it-would-be/) [Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/439/sylvia-plath-149_life_i-wonder-why-i-don-t-go-to-bed-and-go-to_1726279.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 wondered why I couldn't go the whole way doing what I should any more. This made me sad and tired. Then…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/i-wondered-why-i-couldn-t-go-the-whole-way-doing-what-i-should-any/) [Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d07/sylvia-plath-149_depression_i-wondered-why-i-couldn-t-go-the-whole-w_3043872.jpg) ## Other authors on Tired ## 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/tired/sylvia-plath/#itemlist", "name": "7 Tired Quotes By Sylvia Plath", "numberOfItems": 7, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "In a rabbit-fear I may hurl myself under the wheels of the car because the lights terrify me, and under the dark blind death of wheels I will be safe. 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