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Sylvia Plath Quotes

Total quotes: 33
“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
“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
“It is sad to be able to mouth other poets. I want someone to mouth me.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath
Tagged: Writing, Career, Poetry
“There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (Modern Classics)
Tagged: 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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 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
“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 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? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life. And I am horribly limited.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath
Tagged: Life, Routine, Bored, Escapism, Growing Pains
“How I would like to believe in tenderness.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Moon and the Yew Tree
Tagged: Poetry, Literature, Soft
“Character is fate.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath
“I must be lean & write & make worlds beside this to live in.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath
“I put my hands among the flames. Nothing burns.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Collected Poems
Tagged: Poetry, Emptiness, Depression, Monotony
“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
“This is what it is to be complete. It is horrible.”
— Sylvia Plath, Berck-Plage
Tagged: Complete, Whole, Midlife Crisis, Depression
“I must bridge the gap between adolescent glitter and mature glow.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath
Tagged: Growing Pains, adult, maturity
“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
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