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“With me, the present is forever, and forever is always shifting, flowing, melting. This second is life. And when it is gone it is dead. But you can't start over with each new second. You have to judge by what is dead. It's like quicksand… hopeless from the start.”

Sylvia Plath

1950-07-08
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (2000)

“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

Letter to Aurelia Plath (August 21, 1962)
Letters Home: Correspondence 1950–1963 (1976)

“If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Variant: If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.
Source: The Bell Jar (1963), Ch. 8

“How could I write about life when I'd never had a love affair or a baby or seen anybody die?”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar

“I wondered what I thought I was burying.”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar

“Tomorrow is another day toward death.”

Sylvia Plath

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“The future is what matters — because one never reaches it, but always stays in the present — like the White Queen who had to run like the wind to remain in the same spot.”

Sylvia Plath

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“I sank back in the gray, plush seat and closed my eyes. The air of the bell jar wadded round me and I couldn't stir.”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar

“I am accused. I dream of massacres.
I am a garden of black and red agonies. I drink them,
Hating myself, hating and fearing. And now the
world conceives
Its end and runs toward it, arms held out in love.”

Sylvia Plath

“I had hoped, at my departure, I would feel sure and knowledgeable about everything that lay ahead -- after all, I had been "analyzed." Instead, all I could see were question marks.”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar

“Only I wasn't steering anything, not even myself.”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar

“You walked in, laughing, tears welling confused, mingling in your throat. How can you be so many women to so many people, oh you strange girl?”

Sylvia Plath

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Talking about my fears to others feeds it.”

Sylvia Plath

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“What is my life for and what am I going to do with it? I don't know and I'm afraid.”

Sylvia Plath

Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath

“I feel occasionally my skull will crack, fatigue is continuous - I only go from less exhausted to more exhausted & back again.”

Sylvia Plath

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“…I hate myself for not being able to go downstairs naturally and seek comfort in numbers. I hate myself for having to sit here and be torn between I know not what within me.”

Sylvia Plath

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“I felt dull and flat and full of shattered visions.”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar

“I suppose if I gave myself the chance I could be an alcoholic.”

Sylvia Plath

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“It was sometime in October; she had long ago lost track of all the days and it really didn’t matter because one was like another and there were no nights to separate them because she never slept any more.”

Sylvia Plath