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Sylvia Plath Quotes
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![The first time I saw a fingerbowl was at the home of my benefactress. [...] The water had a few cherry blossoms in it, and I thought it must be some clear sort of Japanese after-dinner soup and ate every bit of it, including the crisp little blossoms Picture Quote #1](https://img.picturequotes.com/2/914/913827/913827.webp "The first time I saw a fingerbowl was at the home of my benefactress. [...] The water had a few cherry blossoms in it, and I thought it must be some clear sort of Japanese after-dinner soup and ate every bit of it, including the crisp little blossoms Picture Quote #1")
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I am inhabited by a cry. Nightly it flaps out Looking, with its hooks, for something to love (Sylvia Plath Quotes)
I may have made a straight A in physics, but I was panic-struck. Physics made me sick the whole time I learned it (Sylvia Plath Quotes)
It was my last act of love (first words to her mother in the hospital after her first major suicide attempt) (Sylvia Plath Quotes)
A terrible depression yesterday. Visions of my life petering out into a kind of soft-brained stupor from lack of use (Sylvia Plath Quotes)
I need some older, wiser being to cry to. I talk to God, but the sky is empty, and Orion walks by and doesn’t speak (Sylvia Plath Quotes)
I have no preconceptions. Whatever I see, I swallow immediately. Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike. I am not cruel, only truthful (Sylvia Plath Quotes)
It won’t happen yet, Ellen mused, mashing cooked carrots for Jill’s lunch. Breakups seldom do. It will unfold slowly, one little tell-tale symptom after another like some awful, hellish flower (Sylvia Plath Quotes)
Love set you going like a fat gold watch. The midwife slapped your footsoles, and your bald cry Took its place among the elements (Sylvia Plath Quotes)
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 Quotes)
What is my life for and what am I going to do with it? I don’t know and I’m afraid. (Sylvia Plath Quotes)
I am still so naïve; I know pretty much what I like and dislike; but please, don’t ask me who I am. A passionate, fragmentary girl, maybe? (Sylvia Plath Quotes)
Tonight I am ugly. I have lost all faith in my ability to attract males, and in the female animal that is a rather pathetic malady . . . I don’t care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual. What is it that makes one attract others? (Sylvia Plath Quotes)
I feel occasionally my skull will crack, fatigue is continuous - I only go from less exhausted to more exhausted and back again. (Sylvia Plath Quotes)
I’ve got to have something. I want to stop it all, the whole monumental grotesque joke, before it’s too late. But writing poems and letters doesn’t seem to do much good. (Sylvia Plath Quotes)
The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence. (Sylvia Plath Quotes)
I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad (Sylvia Plath Quotes)
When you are insane, you are busy being insane-all the time ... when I was crazy, that was all I was. (Sylvia Plath Quotes)
I believe that one should be able to control and manipulate experiences, even the most terrifying, like madness, being tortured...with an informed and intelligent mind. (Sylvia Plath Quotes)
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 Quotes)
I buried my head under the darkness of the pillow and pretended it was night. I couldn’t see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to. (Sylvia Plath Quotes)
But I wasn’t sure. I wasn’t sure at all. How did I know that someday•at college, in Europe, somewhere, anywhere•the bell jar, with its stifling distortions, wouldn’t descend again? (Sylvia Plath Quotes)
A fierce brief fusion which dreamers call real, and realists, an illusion; an insight like the flight of birds... (Sylvia Plath Quotes)
I inhabit the wax image of myself, a doll’s body. Sickness begins here; I am a dartboard for witches. (Sylvia Plath Quotes)
Feel like the recluse who comes out into the world with a life-saving gospel to find everybody has learned a new language in the meantime and can’t understand a word he’s saying. (Sylvia Plath Quotes)
The first time I saw a fingerbowl was at the home of my benefactress. [...] The water had a few cherry blossoms in it, and I thought it must be some clear sort of Japanese after-dinner soup and ate every bit of it, including the crisp little blossoms. (Sylvia Plath Quotes)
One should be able to control and manipulate experiences with an informed and intelligent mind (Sylvia Plath Quotes)
He just wanted to see what a girl who was crazy enough to kill herself looked like (Sylvia Plath Quotes)
If I have not the power to put myself in the place of other people, but must be continually burrowing inward, I shall never be the magnanimous creative person I wish to be. Yet I am hypnotized by the workings of the individual, alone, and am continually using myself as a specimen. (Sylvia Plath Quotes)
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead. I think I made you up inside my head. (Sylvia Plath Quotes)
I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am. (Sylvia Plath Quotes)