All Sylvia Plath Quotes
- There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them. Anxiety
- I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am. Bray
- Is there no way out of the mind? Classic
- I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again. All
- How frail the human heart must be - a mirrored pool of thought. Frail
- But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion. Balance
- Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing. Career Success
- I am too pure for you or anyone. Anyone
- I talk to God but the sky is empty. Atheism
- The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it. Blood
- Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing… Accept
- Character is fate. Character
- Miracles occur, If you dare to call those spasmodic Tricks of radiance miracles. The wait's begun again, The long wait for the angel, For that… Angel
- The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence. Classic
- There I went again, building up a glamorous picture of a man who would love me passionately the minute he met me, and all out… All
- The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn't thought about it. All
- I was supposed to be having the time of my life. Funny
- And I am aware of my heart: it opens and closes Its bowl of red blooms out of sheer love of me. Aware
- I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between. Active
- To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream. Baby
- What did my arms do before they held you? Arms
- Backward we traveled to reclaim the day Before we fell, like Icarus, undone; All we find are altars in decay And profane words scrawled black… Across
- I felt like a racehorse in a world without racetracks or a champion college footballer suddenly confronted by Wall Street and a business suit, his… Business
- That’s one of the reasons I never wanted to get married. The last thing I wanted was infinite security and to be the place an… All
- When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn’t know. "Oh, sure you know," the photographer said. "She wants," said Jay… Asked