Sylvia Plath Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old Sylvia Plath quotes, Sylvia Plath sayings, and Sylvia Plath proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends. Sylvia Plath
She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist. Sylvia Plath
If winter comes can spring be... We're nearer to spring than we were in September, i heard a bird sing in the dark of December, January, Febmar, aprimay, apricots, beneath the bough. Sylvia Plath
Dying / Is an art, like everything else. Sylvia Plath
Well, I know now. I know a little more how much a simple thing like a snowfall can mean to a person. Sylvia Plath
Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both. Sylvia Plath
I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo. Sylvia Plath
The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. Sylvia Plath
The first time I saw a fingerbowl was at the home of my benefactress. [...] The water had a few cherry blossoms in it, and I thought it must be some clear sort of Japanese after-dinner soup and ate every bit of it, including the crisp little blossoms. Sylvia Plath
I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo. Sylvia Plath
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. Sylvia Plath
I must bridge the gap between adolescent glitter and mature glow. Sylvia Plath
If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed. Sylvia Plath
We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you. Sylvia Plath
I didn’t want my picture taken because I was going to cry. 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 my throat and I’d cry for a week. I could feel the tears brimming and sloshing in me like water in a glass that is unsteady and too full. Sylvia Plath
Kiss me, and you will see how important I am. Sylvia Plath
I wonder why I don’t go to bed and go to sleep. But then it would be tomorrow, so I decide that no matter how tired, no matter how incoherent I am, I can skip an hour more of sleep and live. Sylvia Plath
Out of the ash I rise with my red hair and I eat men like air. Sylvia Plath
I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it. Sylvia Plath
I am the ghost of an infamous suicide, / My own blue razor rusting in my throat. / O pardon the one who knocks for pardon at / Your gate, father—your hound-bitch, daughter, friend. / It was my love that did us both to death. Sylvia Plath
How we need that security. 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. Sylvia Plath
I wanted to crawl in between those black lines of print, the way you crawl through a fence, and go to sleep under that beautiful big screen fig-tree. Sylvia Plath
I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket. Sylvia Plath
August rain, the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time. Sylvia Plath
I began to think vodka was my drink at last. It didn’t taste like anything, but it went straight down into my stomach like a sword swallowers’ sword and made me feel powerful and godlike. Sylvia Plath
How we need another soul to cling to. Sylvia Plath
I wanted to crawl in between those black lines of print, the way you crawl through a fence, and go to sleep under that beautiful big screen fig-tree. Sylvia Plath
When you give someone your whole heart and he doesn't want it, you cannot take it back. It's gone forever. Sylvia Plath
“Well, I know now. I know a little more how much a simple thing like a snowfall can mean to a person” Sylvia Plath