Sylvia Plath: Trending quotes (page 13)

“And I, love, am a pathological liar.”

“It never occurred to me to say no.”

“The bell jar hung, suspended, a few feet above my head. I was open to the circulating air.”

“God, who am I?”

“To learn and think; to think and live; to live and learn: this always, with new insight, new understanding, and new love.”

“Don't let the wicked city get you down.”

“Love is a shadow.
How you lie and cry after it”

“I am I am I am.”

“I hate handing over money to people for doing what I could just as easily do myself, it makes me nervous.”

“I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life.”

“A ring of gold with the sun in it?
Lies. Lies and a grief.”

“Compared with me, a tree is immortal.”

“Ready for a new life”

“The night sky is only a sort of carbon paper,
Blueblack, with the much-poked periods of stars
Letting in the light, peephole after peephole---
A bonewhite light, like death, behind all things.”

“You cannot regard your own life with objective curiosity all the time…”

“Miracles occur,
If you dare to call those spasmodic
Tricks of radiance miracles. The wait's
begun again,
The long wait for the angel,
For that rare, random descent.”

“The truth comes to me. The truth loves me.”

“I am learning peacefulness, lying by myself quietly, as the light lies on these white walls, this bed, these hands. I am nobody; I have nothing to do with explosions.”

“The sun gives you ulcers, the wind gives you T. B.
Once you were beautiful.”