black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

The truth comes to me. The truth loves me.

Sylvia Plath

I find that in a novel I can get more of life, perhaps not such intense life, but certainly more of life than in poetry.
SYLVIA PLATH

Intense Life Novel Perhaps Poetry
My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.
SYLVIA PLATH

Cure Help Mother Thinking Worse Yourself
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

Beat Beauty Broken Heart Come Back Defeat Home Sorrow Story
A man’s world is different from a woman’s world and a man’s emotions are different from a woman’s emotions and only marriage can bring the two different sets of emotions together properly.
SYLVIA PLATH

Different Emotions Man Togetherness Woman World
Wear your heart on your skin in this life.
SYLVIA PLATH

Heart Life One Liner Skin Tattoo Wear
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

Body Cling Confidence Loneliness Myself Need Soul Trust
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

Air Feeling Happiness Mountain People Tree
She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist.
SYLVIA PLATH

Continue Existence Moments Reflection She Shop Window
I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life.
SYLVIA PLATH

Experience Feeling Life Live Mental Physical Possible Shade Variation
I want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life.
SYLVIA PLATH

Expression Life Translation Urge Want Writing
I smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists.
SYLVIA PLATH

Enough Important Need Smile Thinking
I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
SYLVIA PLATH

Always Christmas Disappointment Feeling
People or stars Regard me sadly, I disappoint them.
SYLVIA PLATH

Disappointment People Regard Sad Stars
It’s a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It’s much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all.
SYLVIA PLATH

Be Yourself Deep Hell Responsiblity
I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.
SYLVIA PLATH

Break Up Flesh Kill Slave Soul
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.
SYLVIA PLATH

Broken Heart Cry Depression Pain Sad

The truth comes to me. The truth loves me.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

The truth comes to me. The truth loves me.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Sylvia Plath Quotes