Sylvia Plath: Quotes about life

Sylvia Plath was American poet, novelist and short story writer. Explore interesting quotes on life.
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“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar

“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.”

Sylvia Plath

Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath

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

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. 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.”

Sylvia Plath

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

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

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar

“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?”

Sylvia Plath

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“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.”

Sylvia Plath

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

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar

“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

“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

“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)

“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.”

Sylvia Plath

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

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

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar

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

Sylvia Plath

Source: Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose and Diary Excerpts

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

Sylvia Plath

“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.”

Sylvia Plath

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Ready for a new life”

Sylvia Plath

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

Sylvia Plath

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath