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Sylvia Plath Quotes

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It's a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It's much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all.

It's a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It's much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all.

Being Yourself, Responsibility, Hell

Sylvia Plath (2000). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950-1962”, Anchor

After all, we are nothing more or less than we choose to reveal.

Opinions are like orgasms...mine matters most and I really don't care if you have one.

Care, Matter, Opinion

Love life day by day, color by color, touch by touch.

Love Life, Color

Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.37, Anchor

Intoxicated with madness, I'm in love with my sadness

Sadness, Madness, Intoxicated

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.

Life, Memories, Taken

Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.14, Anchor

Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.

Rooms, Prison, Your Room

What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.

Thinking, Imagination

Sylvia Plath (2011). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.226, Faber & Faber

If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.

Expectations, Feminism, Classic

The hardest thing, I think, is to live richly in the present, without letting it be tainted & spoiled out of fear for the future or regret for a badly-managed past.

Regret, Past, Feminism

"Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume I: 1940–1956".

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

Needs, Attention, Knows

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.

Chaos, Cold, Kind

I wish you’d find the exit out of my head.

Wish, Exit, Wish You

Hurl yourself at goals above your head and bear the lacerations that come when you slip and make a fool of yourself. Try always, as long as you have breath in your body, to take the hard way–and work, work, work to build yourself into a rich, continually evolving entity.

Long, Goal, Trying

Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.47, Anchor

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.

Book, People, Want

Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.43, Anchor

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 can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life. And I am horribly limited.

Famous Inspirational, Book, Skills

The frost makes a flower, the dew makes a star.

Stars, Flower, Dew

Sylvia Plath (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.205, Faber & Faber

So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.

Reading, Thinking, Long

Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.149, Anchor

I love life. But it is hard and I have so much, so very much to learn.

Love Life, Little Love, Understand Me

Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.25, Anchor

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

Writing, Voice, Stills

Sylvia Plath (2011). “Letters Home”, p.56, Faber & Faber

I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.

Desire, Feminism, Classic

Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.

Hours, Day Life

Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, Anchor

If I didn’t think, I’d be much happier.

Happiness, Happy, Thinking

Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.15, Anchor

When you give someone your whole heart and he doesn't want it, you cannot take it back. It's gone forever.

Heartbreak, Betrayal, Unrequited Love

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

Ideas, Feminism, Age

Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.328, Anchor

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