Sylvia Plath Quotes

let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences

I desire the things which will destroy me in the end.

Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted.

Is there no way out of the mind?

Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me a little? For all my despair, for all my ideals, for all that - I love life. But it is hard, and I have so much - so very much to learn.

"God, but life is loneliness, despite all the opiates, despite the shrill tinsel gaiety of "parties" with no purpose, despite the false grinning faces we all wear. And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter - they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long. Yes, there is joy, fulfillment and companionship - but the loneliness of the soul in its appalling self-consciousness is horrible and overpowering."

If the moon smiled, she would resemble you.
You leave the same impression
Of something beautiful, but annihilating.

I like people too much or not at all. I've got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.

The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn't thought about it.

"When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn’t know.
"Oh, sure you know," the photographer said.
"She wants," said Jay Cee wittily, "to be everything.

We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.

I talk to God but the sky is empty.

To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.

There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.

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.