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- “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.
- “I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked.
- “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.
- “If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.” ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar.
- We must be moving, working, making dreams to run toward; the poverty of life without dreams is too horrible to imagine. Sylvia Plath. Running, Dream, Moving.
- Love life day by day, color by color, touch by touch. Sylvia Plath. Love Life, Color.
- After all, we are nothing more or less than we choose to reveal. Sylvia Plath.
- It's a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It's much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all. Sylvia Plath. Being Yourself, Responsibility, Hell.
Browse and share inspirational quotes by Sylvia Plath, the American poet and novelist who wrote The Bell Jar and Ariel. Explore her themes of mental health, creativity, love, and death.
- Quotes on Introspection
- Quotes on Depression
- Quotes on Death
- Quotes on Love
Many of Plath’s most thought-provoking quotes are built on deep introspection. These moments of reflection and inward thinking might inspire you to do some soul-searching of your own. 1. “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 2. “I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scen...
Plath’s thoughts on mental illness—particularly those that resulted from musings on depressive episodes—are bleak windows into how insurmountable depression can feel and reminders that those who suffer are never alone. 27. “If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.” – Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar 28. “I saw myself sitting in the...
For Plath, thinking about death was a constant, a theme that recurs throughout her work. Since we all face our own mortality, her quotes are worth pondering. 52. “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 Journal...
Over the course of her career, Plath wrote many works about love that are filled with tenderness and care; others remark on the darker aspects of romance and the pessimism that can coincide with affection. 59. “There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.” – Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar 60. “There is something demoralizing...
- “To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.” ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar.
- “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, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath.
- “I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.” ― Sylvia Plath , The Collected Poems.
- “I wanted to be where nobody I knew could ever come.” ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar.
Browse and share quotes from The Bell Jar, a semi-autobiographical novel by Sylvia Plath about a young woman's mental breakdown and recovery. Find quotes on life, love, depression, poetry, and more.
Nov 30, 2014 · A collection of quotes from the late poet Sylvia Plath, who wrote of love, death, and loneliness with a voice that was honest and tragic. Find her words from poems, letters, journals, and The Bell Jar.