All Sylvia Plath Quotes
- Not easy to state the change you made. If I'm alive now, I was dead, Though, like a stone, unbothered by it. Alive
- I was my own woman. The next step was to find the proper sort of man. Find
- I am afraid of getting older … I am afraid of getting married. Spare me from cooking three meals a day—spare me from the relentless… Afraid
- I am inhabited by a cry. Nightly it flaps out Looking, with its hooks, for something to love. Cry
- And I, stepping from this skin Of old bandages, boredoms, old faces Step to you from the black car of Lethe, Pure as a baby. Baby
- I like you, but not too much. I don’t want to like anybody too much. Anybody
- What do you have in mind after you graduate?" What I always thought I had in mind was getting some big scholarship to graduate school… All
- If I was going to fall, I would hang on to my small comforts, at least, for as long as I possibly could. Comfort
- I'm never going to get married." "You're crazy." Buddy brightened. "You'll change your mind." "No. My mind's made up. Brightened
- I buried my head under the darkness of the pillow and pretended it was night. I couldn't see the point of getting up. I had… Bell Jar
- When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn't know. Asked
- My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you. Bell Jar
- I wanted to be where nobody I knew could ever come. Bell Jar
- A skeptic, I would ask for consistency first of all. All
- Masks are the order of the day - and the least I can do is cultivate the illusion that I am gay, serene, not hollow… Afraid
- I felt the mask crumple, the great poisonous store of corrosive ashes begin to spew out of my mouth. Ashes
- God, it was good to let go, let the tight mask fall off, and the bewildered, chaotic fragments pour out. It was the purge, the… Bewildered
- And so I rehabilitate myself - staying up late this Friday night in spite of vowing to go to bed early, because it is more… Bed
- How many different deaths I can die? Deaths
- One thing, I try to be honest. And what is revealed is often rather hideously unflattering. Hideously
- I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love. Capable
- I am gone quite mad with the knowledge of accepting the overwhelming number of things I can never know, places I can never go, and… Accepting
- If only I knew what I wanted I could try to see about getting it. Inspirational
- Tomorrow is another day toward death. Another Day
- But everybody has exactly the same smiling frightened face, with the look that says: "I'm important. If you only get to know me, you will… Everybody