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Sylvia Plath Quotes

Total quotes: 71
“Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath
Tagged: Motivational
“If the moon smiled, she would resemble you. You leave the same impression
Of something beautiful, but annihilating.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Rival
Tagged: Attraction, Beautiful Quotes
“I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Journals of Sylvia Plath
Tagged: Love, Acceptance, Giving, Loving someone back, Patience
“I think I'm in love with missing you more than I'm in love with you.”
— Sylvia Plath, via Amazon
Tagged: Missing Someone, Loving Someone, Love
“I see everyone and no one in myself.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath
Tagged: self, Others
“It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath
Tagged: Keeping Others Out
“I shut my eyes, and the music broke over me like a rainstorm.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
Tagged: Music, Art
“And so it seems I must always write you letters that I can never send.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath
Tagged: Love Letters, Repression, Repressed Feelings, Sad Expression
“There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
Tagged: Best Friends, Friends, Friendship
“There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
Tagged: weird loving friendship, puke, Together, old friends, Friends
“I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.’”
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath
Tagged: Soul, Killing, Flesh
“I am afraid of getting older. I am afraid of getting married…Spare me from the relentless cage of routine and rote. I want to be free… I want, I want to think, to be omniscient.”
— Sylvia Plath, Letters Home
“We should meet in another life, we should meet in air,
Me and you.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Collected Poems
Tagged: Love, romance, wrong timing in love, love in another life, poem, Poetry
“Suddenly I wonder, ‘Where is the girl that I was last year? Two years go? What would she think of me now?’”
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath
Tagged: Change, Personality, Growing, Losing Yourself, lost
“What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath
Tagged: insignificance, INFP, Fading Out, Growing, Middle Age, Type 4
“So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath
Tagged: Reading, Thinking, Living, Life, ENFP
“Dying/ Is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. ”
— Sylvia Plath, The New Beacon Book of Quotations by Women
Tagged: Dying, Death Quotes, Life, Endings
“How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I need someone to pour myself into.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath
Tagged: Love, Connection, Desire, What We Need, Human Connection, Loving Someone, Desire For Love
“It’s just that I’m so tired, I’m so tired, I'm—If I could just sleep a little bit, just a little bit—I’m just so exhausted. You see, if you fear something enough, you can make it happen.”
— Sylvia Plath, Sylvia
Tagged: Tired, Fear
“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath
Tagged: Writing, Writers, inspiration, Creativity
“I am still so naïve; I know pretty much what I like and dislike; but please, don’t ask me who I am. A passionate, fragmentary girl, maybe?”
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath
Tagged: Naivety, Identity, Personality, Growing Up, lost
“Although the rain is neutral, although the rain is impersonal, it becomes for me a haunting and nostalgic sound.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath
Tagged: Rain, Melancholy, Nostalgia, Rainy Day
“What is happy? It is a going always on. There is something better to be done than I have done, and spurred by the fair delusion of progress, I will seek to progress, to whip myself on, to more and more- to learning. Always.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath
Tagged: Learning, Progress, Happiness
“Not easy to state the change you made.
If I'm alive now, then I was dead.”
— Sylvia Plath, Love Letter
Tagged: Love Poem
“Life was not to be sitting in hot amorphic leisure in my backyard idly writing or not-writing, as the spirit moved me. It was instead, running madly, in a crowded schedule, in a squirrel cage of busy people.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath
Tagged: Life, Writing, Career, Growing Pains, Passion
“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
Tagged: strength, Inspirational, Tired, Burnout
“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; 
I lift my lids and all is born again.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Collected Poems
Tagged: Poetry, Life, perseverance, Inspirational
“Why do we electrocute men for murdering an individual and then pin a purple heart on them for mass slaughter of someone arbitrarily labeled 'enemy?'”
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath
Tagged: War, Social Issues, Crime
“Perhaps you consider yourself an oracle,Mouthpiece of the dead, or of some god or other.Thirty years now I have laboredTo dredge the silt from your throat.I am none the wiser.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Colossus
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Life, Future, Past
“I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life.  ”
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath
“Out of the ash
I rise with my red hair
And I eat men like air.”
— Sylvia Plath, Lady Lazarus Poems
Tagged: Poetry, Sylvia Plath Quotes, beautiful morbidity, Self-Destruction, Resurrection
“I love people. Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his collection. Every story, every incident, every bit of conversation is raw material for me.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath
Tagged: ENFP, People, Conversation, Art
“I like people too much or not at all. I've got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath
Tagged: People, Relationships
“The danger is that in this move toward new horizons and far directions, that I may lose what I have now, and not find anything except loneliness.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath
Tagged: Change, Loneliness, Moving On, lost
“I am jealous of those who think more deeply, who write better, who draw better, who ski better, who look better, who live better, who love better than I.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath
Tagged: Jealousy, Envy, Love, Living, Creativity, Type 4
“I am gone quite mad with the knowledge of accepting the overwhelming number of things I can never know, places I can never go, and people I can never be.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath
Tagged: ENFP, INFP, Identity, Opportunity
“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. I can never train myself in all the skills I want.
And why do I want?”
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath
Tagged: Existential Crisis
“I am sad that you are not strong,
and do not swim and sail and ski,
but you have a strong soul,
and I will believe in you
and make you invincible on this Earth.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath
Tagged: Poetry, Love, strength, Soul Poetry
“I began to think vodka was my drink at last. It didn’t taste like anything, but it went straight down into my stomach like a sword swallowers’ sword and made me feel powerful and godlike.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
Tagged: Drinking, vodka, Power
“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart; I am, I am, I am.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (Modern Classics)
Tagged: Perfect Words
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