All Sylvia Plath Quotes
- Dying Is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. Aging
- If only I can find him... the man who will be intelligent, yet physically magnetic and personable. If I can offer that combination, why shouldn't… Combination
- Only I wasn't steering anything, not even myself. Funny
- As I lay on my back in bed staring up at the blank, white ceiling the stillness seemed to grow bigger and bigger until I… Bed
- I felt dull and flat and full of shattered visions. Dull
- Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself. Go
- I tried to speak in a cool, calm way, but the zombie rose up in my throat and choked me off. Calm
- She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist. Continued
- The silence between us was so profound I thought part of it must be my fault. Fault
- I wanted to do everything once and for all and be through with it. All
- With that strange knowing that comes over me, like a clairvoyance, I know that I am sure of myself and my enormous and alarmingly timeless… Alarmingly
- I woke to the sound of rain. Inspirational
- The frost makes a flower, the dew makes a star. Dew
- Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children. Children
- Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to… Chaos
- I am made, crudely, for success. Bell Jar
- I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas. Christmas
- Once one has seen God, what is the remedy? God
- I think my poems immediately come out of the sensuous and emotional experiences I have. Emotional
- One should be able to control and manipulate experiences with an informed and intelligent mind. Able
- Every woman adores a Fascist. Adores
- I have a visual imagination. Imagination
- When you are insane, you are busy being insane - all the time. All
- What I want back is what I was. Want Back
- Poetry at its best can do you a lot of harm. Best