Sylvia Plath cytaty

„Być może pewnego dnia doznam nagle objawienia
I zobaczę drugą stronę tego monumentalnego, groteskowego żartu.
I zaśmieję się wtedy.
I zrozumiem, czym jest życie.”

„Niczym nieokreślony przestępca
Umieram na różne sposoby.”

„Me serce pod twą stopą, pokrewne kamieniom.”

„Pewne rzeczy tego świata są niestrawne.”

„Moje lustro zasnuwa się mgłą –
Jeszcze kilka oddechów, a już niczego nie odbije.”

„Jeśli chcesz o czymś zapomnieć, oznacza to, że nie możesz przestać o tym myśleć.”

„Jak człowiek zacznie tylko o czymś marzyć, to nieuchronnie doznaje rozczarowania.”

„Mężczyzna to strzała skierowana w przyszłość, a kobieta jest miejscem, z którego ta strzała wychodzi.”

„Księżyc to nie drzwi przecież. Tylko twarz własna,
blada jak pięść człowiecza gniewnie zaciśnięta.”

„Umieranie jest sztuką, tak jak wszystko inne. Robię to wyjątkowo dobrze.”

„Miłość jest treścią mego przekleństwa.”

„Doskonały lęk oczyszcza duszę.”

„Trudno opisać zmianę, jaką wniosłeś w me życie.
Jeśli teraz żyję, przedtem byłam jak martwa,
Choć jak kamień nic sobie z tego nie robiłam
Trwając w miejscu zgodnie ze zwyczajem.”

„Doskonałość jest straszna, nie ma potomstwa.”

„Swój czas poślubiłam cieniowi.”

„Pragnę być tym, czym byłam,
Zanim łóżko i zanim nóż,
Agrafa ozdobna i maść
Ujęły mnie jak w nawias;
Chcę koni płynących na wietrze,
Miejsca i czasu poza umysłem.”

„Tatusiu, teraz możesz cicho leżeć w grobie.
W twoim tłustym, czarnym sercu kołek tkwi,
A wieśniacy nie wylali nawet jednej łzy.
Teraz tańczą i depczą po tobie.
Oni zawsze WIEDZIELI, że to ty.
Tato, tato, ty draniu, skończyłam z tym.”

„Skąd mogłam wiedzieć, czy kiedyś, w przyszłości, w Europie czy gdzie indziej – szklany klosz znowu na mnie nie spadnie, nie nakryje mnie, zniekształcając moje widzenie świata.”

“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.”

“If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”

“And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter— they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long.”

“I am inhabited by a cry.
Nightly it flaps out
Looking, with its hooks, for something to love.”

“Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.”

“I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.”

“The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence. I knew perfectly well the cars were making a noise, and the people in them and behind the lit windows of the buildings were making a noise, and the river was making a noise, but I couldn't hear a thing. The city hung in my window, flat as a poster, glittering and blinking, but it might just as well not have been there at all, for the good it did me.”

“I desire the things which will destroy me in the end.”

“How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I need someone to pour myself into.”

“Good to know that if I ever need attention all I have to do is die.”

“I felt dreadfully inadequate. The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.”

“Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously near to wanting nothing.”

“Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted.”

“Is there no way out of the mind?”

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

“I talk to God but the sky is empty.”

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

“Dying
Is an art, like everything else.
I do it exceptionally well.

I do it so it feels like hell.
I do it so it feels real.
I guess you could say I've a call.”

“I felt wise and cynical as all hell.”

“I couldn’t see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to.”

“I didn't know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of the throat and I'd cry for a week.”

“I write only because
There is a voice within me
That will not be still”

“I lean to you, numb as a fossil. Tell me I'm here.”

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

“I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.”

“Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.”

“I wanted to be where nobody I knew could ever come.”

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

“I wondered why I couldn't go the whole way doing what I should any more. This made me sad and tired. Then I wondered why I couldn't go the whole way doing what I shouldn't, the way Doreen did, and this made me even sadder and more tired.”