Sylvia Plath: Trending quotes (page 3)

“What have I eaten? Lies and smiles.”

“I know pretty much what I like and dislike; but please, don't ask me who I am.”

“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my lids and all is born again.”

“I have taken a pill to kill
The thin
Papery feeling.”

“Virginia Woolf helps. Her novels make mine possible.”

“I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed
And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)”

“I’ll never speak to God again.”

“Is there no way out of the mind?”

“I am gone quite mad with the knowledge of accepting the overwhelming number of things I can never know, places I can never go, and people I can never be.”

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

“I wait and ache.”

“I, to you, am lost in the gorgeous errors of flesh.”

“How we need another soul to cling to.”

“I am sure there are things that can't be cured by a good bath but I can't think of one.”

“Whenever I'm sad I'm going to die, or so nervous I can't sleep, or in love with somebody I won't be seeing for a week, I slump down just so far and then I say: 'I'll go take a hot bath.”

“I never feel so much myself as when I'm in a hot bath.”

“I'm doped and thick from my last sleeping pill.”

“What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.”

“I don’t care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual.”