Bell Jar Quotes

24 quotes by 5 authors

• I once met an economist who believed that everything was fungible for money, so I suggested he enclose himself in a large bell-jar with as… — Amory Lovins
• 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… — Sylvia Plath
• Is to throw together events from my own life, fictionalizing to add color—it’s a pot boiler really, but I think it will show how isolated… — Sylvia Plath
• I dare you to read a book this weekend! War and Peace? To Kill a Mocking Bird? Catcher in the Rye? The Heart is a… — Madonna Ciccone
• To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream. — Sylvia Plath
• because wherever I sat—on the deck of a ship or at a street café in Paris or Bangkok—I would be sitting under the same glass… — Sylvia Plath
• The moment in The Bell Jar when Esther Greenwood realizes after thirty days in the same black turtleneck that she never wants to wash her… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
• All the heat and fear had purged itself. I felt surprisingly at peace. The bell jar hung suspended a few feet above my head. I… — Sylvia Plath
• It was like the first time i saw a cadaver. For weeks afterward the cadavers head, or what was left of it - floated up… — Sylvia Plath
• I collected men with interesting names. I already knew a Socrates. He was tall and ugly and intellectual and the son of some big Greek… — Sylvia Plath
• There was a beautiful time... — Sylvia Plath
• I sank back in the gray, plush seat and closed my eyes. The air of the bell jar wadded round me and I couldn't stir. — Sylvia Plath
• But I wasn't sure. I wasn't sure at all. How did I know that someday―at college, in Europe, somewhere, anywhere―the bell jar, with its stifling… — Sylvia Plath
• There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in… — Sylvia Plath
• I need more than anything right now what is, of course, most impossible, someone to love me, to be with me at night when I… — Sylvia Plath
• Not easy to state the change you made. If I'm alive now, I was dead, Though, like a stone, unbothered by it. — Sylvia Plath
• 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… — Sylvia Plath
• 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… — Sylvia Plath
• When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn't know. — Sylvia Plath
• My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you. — Sylvia Plath

Who Wrote These Bell Jar Quotes

5 authors contributed a total of 24 Bell Jar Quotes as follows:

• 20 Bell Jar Quotes by Sylvia Plath
• 1 Bell Jar Quote by Amory Lovins
• 1 Bell Jar Quote by Madonna Ciccone
• 1 Bell Jar Quote by Elizabeth Wurtzel
• 1 Bell Jar Quote by Paul Westerberg