If you’re looking for some words of wisdom, look no further than Sylvia Plath. This talented and troubled writer had a lot to say about life, love, and happiness – and her quotes are just as relevant today as they were when she first wrote them. In this blog post, we’ve collected 80 of her best quotes on these topics. Whether you’re fighting through a tough time or simply looking for some inspiration, these quotes will speak to you.
Sylvia Plath
- “I think I am mad sometimes.” – Sylvia Plath
- “I’ll never speak to God again.” – Sylvia Plath
- “Is there no way out of the mind?” – Sylvia Plath
- “I talk to God but the sky is empty.” – Sylvia Plath
- “Gee baby, you are rare.” – Sylvia Plath, Winter Trees
- “I think I made you up inside my head.” – Sylvia Plath
- “I am going for a long walk” – Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
- “What did my arms do before they held you?” – Sylvia Plath
- “I woke to the sound of rain.” – Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
- “I wish you’d find the exit out of my head.” – Sylvia Plath
- “There was a beautiful time…” – Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
- “I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.” – Sylvia Plath
- “It never occurred to me to say no.” – Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
- “Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.” – Sylvia Plath
- “I felt wise and cynical as all hell.” – Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
- “I collected men with interesting names.” – Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
- “I knew you’d decide to be all right again.” – Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
- “O vase of acid, It is love you are full of.” – Sylvia Plath, Winter Trees
- “Character is fate.” – Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
- “I was supposed to be having the time of my life.” – Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
- “I started adding up all the things I couldn’t do.” – Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
- “I wanted to be where nobody I knew could ever come.” – Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
- “We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.” – Sylvia Plath
- “Is anyone anywhere happy?” – Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
- “Good to know that if I ever need attention all I have to do is die.” – Sylvia Plath
- “Durumun ne kadar umutsuzsa, seni o kadar uzağa saklamaya çalışırlar.” – Sylvia Plath
- “under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air” – Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
- “I lean to you, numb as a fossil. Tell me I’m here.” – Sylvia Plath, The Collected Poems
- “If i never learned shorthand I would never have to use it.” – Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
- “The more hopeless you were, the further away they hid you.” – Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
- “When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn’t know.” – Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
- “I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.” – Sylvia Plath , The Collected Poems
- “Little bloody skirts! –from “Poppies in July”, written 20 July 1962” – Sylvia Plath, Ariel
- “Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.” – Sylvia Plath
- “If you love her”, I said, “you’ll love somebody else someday.” – Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
- “How frail the human heart must be-a mirrored pool of thought.” – Sylvia Plath, Letters Home
- “If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.” – Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
- “Quería estar donde nadie más que yo supiera que podría llegar”.” – Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
- “And I, love, am a pathological liar.” – Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
- “How many different deaths I can die?” – Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
- “No day is safe from news of you. –from “The Rival”, written July 1961” – Sylvia Plath, Ariel
- “I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow.” – Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
- “I want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.” – Sylvia Plath
- “How we need another soul to cling to.” – Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
- “It was comforting to know I had fallen and could fall no farther.” – Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
- “You are a dream; I hope I never meet you.” – Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
- “I was my own woman. The next step was to find the proper sort of man.” – Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
- “I have suffered the atrocity of sunsets. –from “Elm”, written 19 April 1962” – Sylvia Plath, Ariel
- “This is no time for the private point of view. (from ‘Candles’)” – Sylvia Plath, The Collected Poems
- “I write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still” – Sylvia Plath, Letters Home
- “What a man wants is a mate and what a woman wants is infinite security.” – Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
- “I hurl my heart to halt his pace. –from “Pursuit”, written 1956” – Sylvia Plath, The Collected Poems
- “I could feel the winter shaking my bones and banging my teeth together.” – Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
- “The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.” – Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
- “Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.” – Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
- “There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.” – Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
- “Everything people did seemed so silly, because they only died in the end.” – Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
- “I couldn’t see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to.” – Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
- “I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.” – Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
- “I may never be happy, but tonight I am content.” – Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
- “Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it –from “Elm”, written 19 April 1962” – Sylvia Plath, Ariel
- “Out of the ash I rise with my red hair and I eat men like air.” – Sylvia Plath, Ariel: The Restored Edition
- “There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won’t cure, but I don’t know many of them.” – Sylvia Plath
- “I felt the first man I slept with must be intelligent, so I could respect him.” – Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
- “let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences” – Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
- “I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.” – Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
- “Dusk hoods me in blue now, like a Mary. O colour of distance and forgetfulness!” – Sylvia Plath, Winter Trees
- “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
- “Now the one thing this article didn’t seem to me to consider was how a girl felt.” – Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
- “O love, how did you get here? –from “Nick and the Candlestick”, written 29 October 1962” – Sylvia Plath, Ariel
- “The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.” – Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
- “I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.” – Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
- “The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.” – Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
- “The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.” – Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
- “I am too pure for you or anyone. From the poem “Fever 103°”, 20 October 1962” – Sylvia Plath, The Collected Poems
- “But, to salve my conscience, I must feel the pain of work” – Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
- “My worst habit is my fear & my destructive rationalizing.” – Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
- “I am myself. That is not enough. –from “The Jailer”, written 17 October 1962” – Sylvia Plath, The Collected Poems
- “And I sit here without identity: faceless. My head aches.” – Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
- “Mother of otherness, Eat me. –from “Poem for a Birthday – Who”, written 1960” – Sylvia Plath, The Collected Poems
- “It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.” – Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
- “The thought that I might kill myself formed in my mind coolly as a tree or a flower.” – Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
- “Eternity bores me, I never wanted it. From the poem “Years”, 16 November 1962” – Sylvia Plath, The Collected Poems
- “The blood jet is poetry, There is no stopping it. –from “Kindness”, written 1 February 1963” – Sylvia Plath, Ariel
- “I used to pray to recover you. –from “Daddy”, written 12 October 1962” – Sylvia Plath, Ariel: The Restored Edition
- “The blood of love welled up in my heart with a slow pain. ” – Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
- “You smile. No, it is not fatal. –from “The Other”, written 2 July 1962” – Sylvia Plath, Ariel: The Restored Edition
- “What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.” – Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
- “I must be lean & write & make worlds beside this to live in.” – Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
- “I am sure there are things that can’t be cured by a good bath but I can’t think of one.” – Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
- “That afternoon my mother had brought me the roses. “Save them for my funeral,” I’d said.” – Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
- “feel like some eon-old matriarch who has been through ice age and 40-day flood;” – Sylvia Plath, Sylvia Plath: Drawings
- “The slime of all my yesterdays rots in the hollow of my skull.” – Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
- “Then I decided I would spend the summer writing a novel. That would fix a lot of people. ” – Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
- “The bell jar hung, suspended, a few feet above my head. I was open to the circulating air.” – Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
- “The silence drew off, baring the pebbles and shells and all the tatty wreckage of my life.” – Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
- “People or stars Regard me sadly, I disappoint them. From the poem “Sheep in Fog”, 2 December 1962” – Sylvia Plath, Ariel
- “Tomorrow I will be sweet God, I will set them free. The box is only temporary.” – Sylvia Plath, Ariel: The Restored Edition
- “I had been alone more than I could have been had I gone by myself.” – Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
- “I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.” – Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Wrapping Up
Sylvia Plath was a poet, novelist, and short story writer whose works have become timeless pieces of literature. She wrote eloquently and poetically about life, love, and happiness in an honest way that speaks to generations of readers around the world. Her quotes are still inspiring us today and can help us gain insight into our own lives. We hope these 80 Sylvia Plath quotes will help to inspire your own journey of self-discovery and understanding. Thank you for reading!
