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“I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.”

Sylvia Plath

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Dying
Is an art, like everything else.
I do it exceptionally well.

I do it so it feels like hell.
I do it so it feels real.
I guess you could say I've a call.”

Sylvia Plath Ariel

&quot;Lady Lazarus&quot; http://www.angelfire.com/tn/plath/lady.html <br class="br">Source: Ariel (1965)

“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar

“The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence. I knew perfectly well the cars were making a noise, and the people in them and behind the lit windows of the buildings were making a noise, and the river was making a noise, but I couldn't hear a thing. The city hung in my window, flat as a poster, glittering and blinking, but it might just as well not have been there at all, for the good it did me.”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar (1963), Ch. 2

“If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar (1963), Ch. 5

“I am inhabited by a cry.
Nightly it flaps out
Looking, with its hooks, for something to love.”

Sylvia Plath Ariel

Source: Ariel

“I like people too much or not at all.”

Sylvia Plath

“Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.”

Sylvia Plath

Variant: Kiss me and you will see how important I am.
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Is anyone anywhere happy?”

Sylvia Plath

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“I lean to you, numb as a fossil. Tell me I'm here.”

Sylvia Plath

Source: The Collected Poems

“I didn't know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of the throat and I'd cry for a week.”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar

“I am terrified by this dark thing
That sleeps in me;
All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity.”

Sylvia Plath Ariel

&quot;Elm&quot; http://www.angelfire.com/tn/plath/elm.html <br class="br">Source: Ariel (1965) <br class="br">Context: p&gt;I am inhabited by a cry.<br>Nightly it flaps out<br>Looking, with its hooks, for something to love.I am terrified by this dark thing<br>That sleeps in me;<br>All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity.&lt;/p

“The floor seemed wonderfully solid. It was comforting to know I had fallen and could fall no farther.”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Variant: It was comforting to know I had fallen and could fall no farther.
Source: The Bell Jar

“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.”

Sylvia Plath

Variant: How we need that security. 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.
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“I wondered why I couldn't go the whole way doing what I should any more. This made me sad and tired. Then I wondered why I couldn't go the whole way doing what I shouldn't, the way Doreen did, and this made me even sadder and more tired.”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar

“I think I am mad sometimes.”

Sylvia Plath

“I desire the things which will destroy me in the end.”

Sylvia Plath

Journal entry from July 1950 &ndash; 1953, page 63 of the original, page 55 of the collection
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (2000)
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath