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45 Best Sylvia Plath Quotes
1. “Didn’t you know I’m going to be the greatest, most entertaining author and artist in the world? Well, don’t feel badly, I didn’t either!” – Sylvia Plath
2. “The thought that I might kill myself formed in my mind coolly as a tree or a flower.” – Sylvia Plath
3. “To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.” – Sylvia Plath
4. “I want Books and Babies and Beef stews.” – Sylvia Plath
5. “Perhaps some day I’ll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.” – Sylvia Plath
6. “I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.” – Sylvia Plath
7. “We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.” – Sylvia Plath
8. “I was supposed to be having the time of my life.” – Sylvia Plath
9. “Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning.” – Sylvia Plath
10. “So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.” – Sylvia Plath
11. “The trouble about jumping was that if you didn’t pick the right number of storeys, you might still be alive when you hit bottom.” – Sylvia Plath
12. “The blood of love welled up in my heart with a slow pain.” – Sylvia Plath
13. “Everything people did seemed so silly, because they only died in the end.” – Sylvia Plath
14. “What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.” – Sylvia Plath
15. “I love him to hell and back and heaven and back, and have and do and will.” – Sylvia Plath
16. “I wish you’d find the exit out of my head.” – Sylvia Plath
17. “If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.” – Sylvia Plath
18. “Freedom is not of use to those who do not know how to employ it.” – Sylvia Plath
19. “Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.” – Sylvia Plath
20. “But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion.” – Sylvia Plath
21. “I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad.” – Sylvia Plath
22. “Let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences” – Sylvia Plath
23. “What a man is is an arrow into the future, and what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from.” – Sylvia Plath
24. “Kiss me and you will see how important I am.” – Sylvia Plath
25. “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.” – Sylvia Plat
26. “The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.” – Sylvia Plath
27. “Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I’ve a call.” – Sylvia Plath
28. “I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.” – Sylvia Plath
29. “I pass by people, grazing them on the edges, and it bothers me. I’ve got to admire someone to really like them deeply – to value them as friends.” – Sylvia Plath
30. “Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.” – Sylvia Plath
31. “My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.” – Sylvia Plath
32. “Indecision and reveries are the anesthetics of constructive action.” – Sylvia Plath
33. “I’ve begun to think like a Jew, to feel like a Jew.” – Sylvia Plath
34. “There must be quite a few things a hot bath won’t cure, but I don’t know many of them.” – Sylvia Plath
35. “I don’t believe that the meek will inherit the earth; The meek get ignored and trampled.” – Sylvia Plath
36. “Perfection is terrible; it cannot have children.” – Sylvia Plath
37. “One should be able to control and manipulate experiences with an informed and intelligent mind.” – Sylvia Plath
38. “I think my poems immediately come out of the sensuous and emotional experiences I have.” – Sylvia Plath
39. “Indecision and reveries are the anesthetics of constructive action.” – Sylvia Plath
40. “I am too pure for you or anyone.” – Sylvia Plath
41. “I want to live and feel all the shades, tones, and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.” – Sylvia Plath
42. “I wanted to be where nobody I knew could ever come.” – Sylvia Plath
43. “A little thing, like children putting flowers in my hair, can fill up the widening cracks in my self-assurance like soothing lanolin.” – Sylvia Plath
44. “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 nothing to look forward to.” – Sylvia Plath
45. “Wear your heart on your skin in this life.” – Sylvia Plath
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