All Sylvia Plath Quotes
- I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my lids and all is born again. (I think I made you up… All
- And the danger is that in this move toward new horizons and far directions, that I may lose what I have now, and not find… Alone
- Hurl yourself at goals above your head and bear the lacerations that come when you slip and make a fool of yourself. Try always, as… Bear
- I inhabit the wax image of myself, a doll's body. Sickness begins here; I am a dartboard for witches. Begins
- The only reason I remembered this play was because it had a mad person in it, and everything I had ever read about mad people… Ever Read
- A dispassionate white sun shone at the summit of the sky. I wanted to hone myself on it till I grew saintly and thin and… Blade
- You cannot regard your own life with objective curiosity all the time... All
- ...we shall board our imagined ship and wildly sail among sacred islands of the mad till death shatters the fabulous stars and makes us real. Among
- I desire the things that will destroy me in the end. Classic
- The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. Beautiful
- The night sky is only a sort of carbon paper, Blueblack, with the much-poked periods of stars Letting in the light, peephole after peephole--- A… All
- I am flushed and warm. I think I may be enormous, I am so stupidly happy, My wellingtons Squelching and squelching through the beautiful red. Beautiful
- Love, love, I have hung our cave with roses. Cave
- I have let things slip, a thirty-year~old cargo boat Stubbornly hanging on to my name and address. Address
- I felt the first man I slept with must be intelligent, so I could respect him. Felt
- Feel oddly barren. My sickness is when words draw in their horns and the physical world refuses to be ordered, recreated, arranged and selected. I… Arranged
- I had imagined a kind, ugly, intuitive man looking up and say, 'Ah!' in an encouraging way, as if he could see something I couldn't,… Ah
- It seemed silly to wash one day when I would only have to wash again the next. It made me tired just to think of… Day
- I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the… All
- I felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I'd never seen before in my life. Felt
- I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night. Able
- There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone. There is an off-focus light cast by the moon, and… Alone
- I liked looking on at other people in crucial situations. If there was a road accident or a street fight or a baby pickled in… Accident
- I didn't really see why people should look at me. Plenty of people looked queerer than I did. Look
- I may never be happy, but tonight I am content. Nothing more than an empty house, the warm hazy weariness from a day spent setting… Ask