Quotes by Sylvia Plath

Is everybody else sick too? I asked with some hope.

I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.

I have stitched life into me like a rare organ from "Three Women: A Poem for Three Voices"

So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.

Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted.

There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.

We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.

I may never be happy, but tonight I am content.

Is anyone anywhere happy?

People or stars regards me sadly, I disappoint them.

People or starsRegards me sadly, I disappoint them.

I was my own woman.The next step was to find the proper sort of man.

Living with him is like being told a perpetual story: his mind is the biggest, most imaginative I have ever met. I could live in its growing countries forever.

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.

I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give.

Yes, I was infatuated with you: I am still. No one has ever heightened such a keen capacity of physical sensation in me. I cut you out because I couldn't stand being a passing fancy. Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams. And you weren't having any of those.

If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;I lift my lids and all is born again.(I think I made you up inside my head.)

I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart: I am, I am, I am.

I'm a hawk in a falling sky.

I am stuffed with contentment. I am in a smother of hair.

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. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and phy

I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.