Sylvia Plath Quotes

“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 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.”

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

“Is there no way out of the mind?”

“Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close 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.”

“There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.”

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

“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my eyes and all is born again.”

“If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.”

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

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