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Sylvia Plath Quote: “I couldn’t stand the idea of a woman having to have a single pure life and a man being able to have a double life, one pure and one not.”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “I want to force myself again and again to leave the warmth and security of static situations and move into the world of growth and suffering where the real books are people’s minds and souls.”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “I never feel so much myself as when I’m in a hot bath.”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “I am still raw. I say I may be back. You know what lies are for. Even in your Zen heaven we shan’t meet.”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “I am so hungry for a big smashing creative burgeoning burdened love.”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “There ought, I thought, to be a ritual for being born twice – patched, retreaded and approved for the road.”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “Look what can happen in this country, they’d say. A girl lives in some out-of-the-way town for 19 years, so poor she can’t afford a magazine, and then she gets a scholarship to college and wins a prize here and a prize there and ends up steering New York like her own private car. Only I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself. I bumped from my hotel to work and to parties and from parties to my hotel and back to work like a numb trolley-bus.”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “I’m sarcastic, skeptical, and sometimes callous because I’m still afraid, deep down, of letting myself be hurt.”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “Do we always grind through the present, doomed to throw a gold haze of fond retrospect over the past?”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “A black-sharded lady keeps me in a parrot cage.”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “The eyes and the faces all turned themselves towards me, and guiding myself by them, as by a magical thread, I stepped into the room.”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room.”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “Don’t talk to me about the world needing cheerful stuff! What the person out of Belsen physical or psychological wants is nobody saying the birdies still go tweet-tweet, but the full knowledge that somebody else has been there and knows the worst, just what it is like.”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn’t know.”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “Love, love, I have hung our cave with roses.”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “No day is safe from news of you.”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “I would catch sight of some flawless man off in the distance, but as soon as he moved closer I immediately saw he wouldn’t do at all.”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “And you grit your teeth, despising yourself for your tremulous sensitivity, and wondering how human beings can suffer their individualities to be mercilessly crushed under a machinelike dictatorship, be it of industry, state or organization, all their lives long.”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “I could feel the tears brimming and sloshing in me like water in a glass that is unsteady and too full.”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “As I lay on my back in bed staring up at the blank, white ceiling the stillness seemed to grow bigger and bigger until I felt my eardrums would burst with it.”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “I am aware, sure, I am aware. Catastrophically aware.”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both.”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “So I kiss him, and there is the great dark sea ahead...”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “A stiff breeze lifted the hair from my head. At my feet, the city doused its lights in sleep, its buildings blackened, as if for a funeral.”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “I have taken a pill to kill The thin Papery feeling.”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “I suppose I’ll always be over-vulnerable, slightly paranoid.”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “I must learn more about these people – try to understand them, put myself in their place. No, instead I am so busy keeping my head above water that I scarcely know who I am, much less who anyone else is.”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “I felt like a racehorse in a world without racetracks or a champion college footballer suddenly confronted by Wall Street and a business suit, his days of glory shrunk to a little gold cup on his mantel with a date engraved on it like the date on a tombstone.”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “God, it was good to let go, let the tight mask fall off, and the bewildered, chaotic fragments pour out. It was the purge, the catharsis.”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “We know a thing by its opposite corollary; hot by having experienced cold; good by having decided what is bad; love by hate.”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “I wanted to do everything once and for all and be through with it.”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “I am inhabited by a cry. Nightly it flaps out Looking, with its hooks, for something to love.”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “I didn’t know what I was doing in New York.”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “I think writers are the most narcissistic people. Well, I musn’t say this, I like many of them, a great many of my friends are writers.”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “And this is how it stiffens, my vision of that seaside childhood. My father died, we moved inland. Whereon those nine first years of my life sealed themselves off like a ship in a bottle – beautiful, inaccessible, obsolete, a fine, white flying myth.”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “The reason I hadn’t washed my clothes or my hair was because it seemed so silly. I saw the days of the year stretching ahead like a series of bright, white boxes, and separating one box from another was sleep, like a black shade. Only for me, the long perspective of shades that set off one box from the next had suddenly snapped up, and I could see day after day after day glaring ahead of me like a white, broad, infinitely desolate avenue.”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “Piece by piece, I fed my wardrobe to the night wind, and flutteringly, like a loved one’s ashes, the gray scraps were ferried off, to settle here, there, exactly where I would never know, in the dark heart of New York.”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “Pretty soon, the only doubt in my mind was the precise time and method of committing suicide. The only alternative I could see was an eternity of hell for the rest of my life in a mental hospital, and I was going to use my last ounce of free choice and choose a quick clean ending.”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “I laid my face to the smooth face of the marble and howled my loss into the cold salt rain.”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “I thought how strange it had never occurred to me before that I was only purely happy until I was nine years old.”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “What is so real as the cry of a child? A rabbit’s cry may be wilder But it has no soul.”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “Then bed, and again the luxury of dark. Still the blood and flesh of me were electric and singing quietly. But it ebbed and ebbed and dark and sleep and oblivion came and came, surging, surging, surging inward, lapping and drowning with no-name, no-identity, none at all. Just nothing, yet the seeds of awakening and life slumbered there in the dark.”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “I do not know who I am, where I am going – and I am the one who has to decide the answers to these hideous questions.”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “I hate handing over money to people for doing what I could just as easily do myself, it makes me nervous.”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “If there’s anything I look down on, it’s a man in a blue outfit.”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “I thought it would be the way I’d feel if I ever visited Europe. I’d come home, and if I looked closely into the mirror I’d be able to make out a little white Alp at the back of my eye. Now I thought that if I looked closely into the mirror I’d see a doll-size Constantin sitting in my eye and smiling out at me.”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “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 Quote: “I hadn’t, at the last moment, felt like washing off the two diagonal lines of dried blood that marked my cheeks. They seemed touching, and rather spectacular, and I thought I would carry them around with me, like the relic of a dead lover, till they wore off of their own accord.”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “I tried to speak in a cool, calm way, but the zombie rose up in my throat and choked me off.”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “I wanted to tell her that if only something were wrong with my body it would be fine, I would rather have anything wrong with my body than something wrong with my head, but the idea seemed so involved and wearisome that I didn’t say anything. I only burrowed down further in the bed.”
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