Sylvia Plath: Quotes about life

“We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.”

“Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me a little? For all my despair, for all my ideals, for all that - I love life. But it is hard, and I have so much - so very much to learn.”

“Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning.”

“What is my life for and what am I going to do with it? I don't know and I'm afraid. I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want.”

“I felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I'd never seen before in my life.”

“Why the hell are we conditioned into the smooth strawberry-and-cream Mother-Goose-world, Alice-in-Wonderland fable, only to be broken on the wheel as we grow older and become aware of ourselves as individuals with a dull responsibility in life?”

“It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing negative--which ever is running at the moment dominates my life, floods it.”

“The silence drew off, baring the pebbles and shells and all the tatty wreckage of my life.”

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

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

“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.”

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”

“I was supposed to be having the time of my life.”

“Wear your heart on your skin in this life.”

“I have stitched life into me like a rare organ”

“Oh, something is there, waiting for me. Perhaps someday the revelation will burst in upon me and I will see the other side of this monumental grotesque joke. And then I'll laugh. And then I'll know what life is.”

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

“Ready for a new life”

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