All Sylvia Plath Quotes
- Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning. Beauty
- I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want.… All
- In a rabbit-fear I may hurl myself under the wheels of the car because the lights terrify me, and under the dark blind death of… Banal
- How we need another soul to cling to. Another Soul
- O love, how did you get here? --Nick and the Candlestick Candlestick
- I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it. Classic
- The box is only temporary. Box
- They had to call and call And pick the worms off me like sticky pearls. Call
- A ring of gold with the sun in it? Lies. Lies and a grief. Gold
- People or stars Regard me sadly, I disappoint them. Disappoint
- There is a charge For the eyeing of my scars, there is a charge For the hearing of my heart - It really goes. And… Bit
- I have taken a pill to kill The thin Papery feeling. Feeling
- Is it the sea you hear in me? Its dissatisfactions? Or the voice of nothing, that was your madness? Love is a shadow. How you… Cry
- I have suffered the atrocity of sunsets. Atrocities
- I am terrified by this dark thing That sleeps in me; All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity. Clouds pass and disperse.… Acid
- We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you. Air
- I'm doped and thick from my last sleeping pill. Doped
- The sun gives you ulcers, the wind gives you T.B. Once you were beautiful. Beautiful
- Now I am silent, hate Up to my neck, Thick, thick. I do not speak. Hate
- I am still raw. I say I may be back. You know what lies are for. Even in your Zen heaven we shan't meet. Heaven
- If the moon smiled, she would resemble you. You leave the same impression Of something beautiful, but annihilating. Annihilating
- No day is safe from news of you. Day
- I used to pray to recover you. Inspirational
- Every woman adores a Fascist, The boot in the face, the brute Brute heart of a brute like you. Adore
- At twenty I tried to die And get back, back, back to you. I thought even the bones would do. Back Back