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Bell Jar Quotes by Sylvia Plath
- 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…
- 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…
- To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.
- 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…
- 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…
- It was like the first time i saw a cadaver. For weeks afterward the cadavers head, or what was left of it - floated up…
- 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…
- There was a beautiful time...
- 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.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Not easy to state the change you made. If I'm alive now, I was dead, Though, like a stone, unbothered by it.
- 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…
- 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…
- When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn't know.
- My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.
- I wanted to be where nobody I knew could ever come.
- That afternoon my mother had brought me the roses. "Save them for my funeral," I'd said.
- I am made, crudely, for success.
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- It was like the first time i saw a cadaver. For weeks afterward the cadavers head, or what was left of it… — Sylvia Plath
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- 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… — Sylvia Plath