Sylvia Plath: Trending quotes (page 10)

“I think I made you up inside my head.”

Sylvia Plath

Thinking

“If you love her", I said, "you'll love somebody else someday.”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar

Love

“If they substituted the word 'Lust' for 'Love' in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth.”

Sylvia Plath

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Love , Truth

“If I didn't think, I'd be much happier; if I didn't have any sex organs, I wouldn't waver on the brink of nervous emotion and tears all the time.”

Sylvia Plath

1950 entry, quoted in Kate Moses, "The Real Sylvia Plath," Salon.com (2000-06-01) http://dir.salon.com/story/books/feature/2000/06/01/plath2/
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (2000)
Variant: If I didn't think, I'd be much happier; if I didn't have any sex organs, I wouldn't waver on the brink of nervous emotion and tears all the time.
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Sex , Thinking , Tear , Time

“Instead of the world being divided up into Catholics and Protestants or Republicans and Democrats or white men and black men or even men and women, I saw the world divided into people who had slept with somebody and people who hadn't, and this seemed the only really significant difference between one person and another.”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar (1963), Ch. 7
Context: Instead of the world being divided up into Catholics and Protestants or Republicans and Democrats or white men and black men or even men and women, I saw the world divided into people who had slept with somebody and people who hadn't, and this seemed the only really significant difference between one person and another. I thought a spectacular change would come over me the day I crossed the boundary line.

Women , Men , People , World

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

Sylvia Plath

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Thinking , Reading

“I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow.”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar

Beauty , Depressing , World , Beauty

“There I went again, building up a glamorous picture of a man who would love me passionately the minute he met me, and all out of a few prosy nothings.”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar

Love , Passion

“People or stars
Regard me sadly, I disappoint them.

From the poem "Sheep in Fog", 2 December 1962, 28 January 1963”

Sylvia Plath

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

People , Disappointment , Star

“So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed, and afterward you went about as numb as a slave in some private, totalitarian state.”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar (1963), Ch. 7

Children , Thinking

“I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.”

Sylvia Plath

Love

“I am too pure for you or anyone.

From the poem "Fever 103°", 20 October 1962”

Sylvia Plath

Source: The Collected Poems

“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 book The Bell Jar

Variant: The same thing happened over and over: I would catch sight of some flawless man in the distance, but as soon as he moved closer I immediately saw he wouldn’t do at all.
Source: The Bell Jar