All Sylvia Plath Quotes
- I may never be happy, but tonight I am content. Content
- But they know. They all know. And what am I against so many…? All
- I don't see,' I said, 'how people stand being old. Your insides all dry up. When you're young you're so self-reliant. You don't even need… All
- God, is this all it is, the ricocheting down the corridor of laughter and tears? Of self-worship and self-loathing? Of glory and disgust? All
- A little thing, like children putting flowers in my hair, can fill up the widening cracks in my self-assurance like soothing lanolin. Assurance
- But writing poems and letters doesn't seem to do much good. Good
- I love the people,' I said. 'I have room in me for love, and for ever so many little lives. Little
- How can I tell Bob that my happiness streams from having wrenched a piece out of my life, a piece of hurt and beauty, and… Beauty
- …'It always has to end, doesn't it? We always have to separate.' 'Yes,' I said. He was insistent, 'But it doesn't always have to be… All
- I had been alone more than I could have been had I gone by myself. Alone
- The future is what matters — because one never reaches it, but always stays in the present — like the White Queen who had to… Always Stays
- And I sit here without identity: faceless. My head aches. Ache
- …beating time along the edge of thought. Along
- Perhaps, perhaps this would be the one to pull me out of my plunge. Inspirational
- No, I won't try to escape myself by losing myself in artificial chatter 'Did you have a nice vacation?' 'Oh, yes, and you?' I'll stay… Artificial
- I can't deceive myself that out of the bare stark realization that no matter how enthusiastic you are, no matter how sure that character is… All
- …I hate myself for not being able to go downstairs naturally and seek comfort in numbers. I hate myself for having to sit here and… Able
- And, I think: I am but one more drop in the great sea of matter, defined, with the ability to realize my existence. Of the… Ability
- I am accused. I dream of massacres. I am a garden of black and red agonies. I drink them, Hating myself, hating and fearing. And… Accused
- Well, I know now. I know a little more how much a simple thing like a snowfall can mean to a person Know Now
- 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 the… Able
- But I am I now; and so many other millions are so irretrievably their own special variety of 'I' that I can hardly bear to… Assertive
- I am jealous of those who think more deeply, who write better, who draw better, who ski better, who look better, who live better, who… Better
- …* to learn that money makes life smooth in some ways, and to feel how tight and threadbare life is if you have too little.… Art
- …* to know a lot of people I love pieces of, and to want to synthesize those pieces in me somehow, be it by painting… Agreement