Sylvia Plath Quotes

“If you love her, . . . you'll love somebody else someday.”

― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

topic:love

“I felt my lungs inflate with the inrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, 'This is what it is to be happy.'”

― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

topic:happiness nature

“What a man is is an arrow into the future and what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from”

― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

topic:women men future

“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”

― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

topic:heart existence

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

― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

topic:friendship

“There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room.”

― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

topic:loneliness romance

“The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.”

― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

topic:silence

“I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat...”

― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

topic:choice

“If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.”

― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

topic:want contradiction

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