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35 Sylvia Plath Wisdoms That Haven't Aged With The Passing Of Time

When you give someone your whole heart and he doesn't want it, you cannot take it back. 
Kirsten Corley
August 19, 2016
“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
“Kiss me and you will see how important I am.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath
Tagged: Love, kiss, Relationships, Dating, Insecurities, Self Worth
“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
“This is what it is to be complete. It is horrible.”
— Sylvia Plath, Berck-Plage
Tagged: Complete, Whole, Midlife Crisis, Depression
“I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, this is what it is to be happy.”
— Sylvia Plath, Bell Jar
Tagged: Nature, beauty
“I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery — air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, 'This is what it is to be happy.'”
— Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
Tagged: Nature
“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
“Clownlike, happiest on your hands, Feet to the stars, and moon-skulled, Gilled like a fish. A common-sense Thumbs-down on the dodo’s mode. Wrapped up in yourself like a spool, Trawling your dark as owls do.”
— Sylvia Plath, You're
Tagged: self, humor, Happiness, Youth
“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
“If they substituted the word 'Lust' for 'Love' in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath
Tagged: Sex, Love, Dating
“I too want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.”
— Sylvia Plath, 27 Timeless Sylvia Plath Quotes
Tagged: Important, different, Girls, Womanhood, unique
“So, now I shall talk every night. To myself. To the moon. I shall walk, as I did tonight, jealous of my loneliness, in the blue-silver of the cold moon, shining brilliantly on the drifts of fresh-fallen snow, with the myriad sparkles. I talk to myself and look at the dark trees, blessedly neutral. So much easier than facing people, than having to look happy, invulnerable, clever.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath
Tagged: Alone, Social Anxiety, Nature, Zen
“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
“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
“I want to taste and glory in each day, and never be afraid to experience pain; and never shut myself up in a numb core of nonfeeling, or stop questioning and criticizing life and take the easy way out. To learn and think: to think and live; to live and learn: this always, with new insight, new understanding, and new love.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath
“I didn’t want any flowers, I only wanted
to lie with my hands turned up and be utterly empty.
How free it is, you have no idea how free.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath
“Character is fate.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath
“Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath
Tagged: Alone, Self love, Companionship, Loneliness, Narcissism
“I must bridge the gap between adolescent glitter and mature glow.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath
Tagged: Growing Pains, adult, maturity
“I put my hands among the flames. Nothing burns.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Collected Poems
Tagged: Poetry, Emptiness, Depression, Monotony
“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
“I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (Modern Classics)
Tagged: Emptiness, Depression, Chaos
“It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (Modern Classics)
Tagged: first lines of books, Summertime, New York City
“How I would like to believe in tenderness.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Moon and the Yew Tree
Tagged: Poetry, Literature, Soft
“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
“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
“When you give someone your whole heart and he doesn't want it, you cannot take it back. It's gone forever.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
Tagged: friendzone
“There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.”
— Sylvia Plath, Beacon Book Of Quotations
Tagged: Sylvia Plath Quotes, Remedy, cure, alone time