I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
SYLVIA PLATHThe sheets grow heavy as a lecher’s kiss.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.
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Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
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Tomorrow is another day toward death.
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Everything in life is writable.
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I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.
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Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.
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Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning.
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The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.
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Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.
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I don’t care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual.
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Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.
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The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
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I didn’t want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn’t know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of my throat and I’d cry for a week.
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I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery – air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, This is what it is to be happy.
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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