All Sylvia Plath Quotes
- I feel self-repressed again. The old fall disease. Where is my willpower? The idea of a life gets in the way of my life...I dream… Disease
- Sometimes I feel so stupid and dull and uncreative that I am amazed when people tell me differently. Amazed
- On the train: staring hypnotized at the blackness outside the window, feeling the incomparable rhythmic language of the wheels, clacking out nursery rhymes, summing up… Blackness
- Joy:show joy & enjoy: then others will be joyful. Enjoy
- A bad dream.To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is the bad dream.A bad dream.I… Baby
- Worse even than your maddening song, your silence. Inspirational
- A psychiatrist is the god of our age. But they cost money. Age
- Can a selfish egocentric jealous and unimaginative female write a damn thing worthwhile? Damn
- After all, we are nothing more or less than we choose to reveal. All
- There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone. Alone
- What have I eaten? Lies and smiles. Eaten
- I have no preconceptions. Whatever I see, I swallow immediately. Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike. I am not cruel, only truthful. Cruel
- We know a thing by its opposite corollary; hot by having experienced cold; good by having decided what is bad; love by hate. Bad
- I want to force myself again and again to leave the warmth and security of static situations and move into the world of growth and… Book
- We must be moving, working, making dreams to run toward; the poverty of life without dreams is too horrible to imagine. Dream
- Everything in life is writable... Funny
- I dream too much, work too little. Dream
- Yes, there is joy, fulfillment and companionship but the loneliness of the soul in its appalling self-consciousness is horrible and overpowering. Appalling
- Your room is not your prison. You are. Inspirational
- I have this demon who wants me to run away screaming if I am going to be flawed, fallible. It wants me to think I'm… Away Screaming
- I've eaten a bag of Green apples. Boarded the train, there's no getting off Apples
- It won't happen yet, Ellen mused, mashing cooked carrots for Jill's lunch. Breakups seldom do. It will unfold slowly, one little tell-tale symptom after another… Another Like
- The sheets grow heavy as a lecher's kiss. Grow
- I have to live my life, and it is the only one I’ll ever have. Funny
- The one thing I was good at was winning scholarships and prizes, and that era was coming to an end. Coming