“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.”
~ Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
“Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously near to wanting nothing.”
~ Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“There is so much hurt in this game of searching for a mate, of testing, trying. And you realize suddenly that you forgot it was a game, and turn away in tears.”
~ Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.”
~ Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
“If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
~ Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
“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 Bell Jar
“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my eyes and all is born again.”
~ Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
“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
“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 my life. And I am horribly limited.”
~ Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.”
~ Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
“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.”
~ Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“Living with him is like being told a perpetual story: his mind is the biggest, most imaginative I have ever met. I could live in its growing countries forever.”
~ Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“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 have a call.”
~ Sylvia Plath, Ariel
“I am terrified by this dark thing
That sleeps in me;
All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity.”
~ Sylvia Plath, Ariel
“My mind is barren and I must scavenge themes as a magpie must: scraps and oddments.”
~ Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“I want to taste and glory in each day, and never be afraid to experience pain; and never shut myself up in a numb core of nonfeeling, or stop questioning and criticizing life and take the easy way out. To learn and think: to think and live; to live and learn: this always, with new insight, new understanding, and new love.”
~ Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow, the million moving shapes and cul-de-sacs of shadow. There was shadow in bureau drawers and closets and suitcases, and shadow under houses and trees and stones, and shadow at the back of people's eyes and smiles, and shadow, miles and miles and miles of it, on the night side of the earth.”
~ Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
“The blood of love welled up in my heart with a slow pain. ”
~ Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“With love and faith, not turning sour and cold and bitter, to help others. That is salvation. To give of love inside. To keep love of live, no matter what, and give to others. Generously.”
~ Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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