Sylvia Plath was a famous poet, novelist, and short story writer from the United States.
Best Sylvia Plath Quotes
1. “The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.” ~ (Sylvia Plath).
2. “Is there no way out of the mind?” ~ (Sylvia Plath).
3. “If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.” ~ (Sylvia Plath).
4. “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).
5. “Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.” ~ (Sylvia Plath).
6. “I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.” ~ (Sylvia Plath).
7. “I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.” ~ (Sylvia Plath).
8. “I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.” ~ (Sylvia Plath).
9. “Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.” ~ (Sylvia Plath).
10. “What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.” ~ (Sylvia Plath).
Top Sylvia Plath Quotes
11. “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.” ~ (Sylvia Plath).
12. “So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.” ~ (Sylvia Plath).
13. “How we need another soul to cling to.” ~ (Sylvia Plath).
14. “I think I made you up inside my head.” ~ (Sylvia Plath).
15. “I dream too much, work too little.” ~ (Sylvia Plath).
16. “After all, we are nothing more or less than we choose to reveal.” ~ (Sylvia Plath).
17. “I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.” ~ (Sylvia Plath).
18. “It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.” ~ (Sylvia Plath).
19. “August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.” ~ (Sylvia Plath).
20. “I don’t care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual.” ~ (Sylvia Plath).
21. “I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.” ~ (Sylvia Plath).
Famous Sylvia Plath Quotes
22. “Ready for a new life.” ~ (Sylvia Plath).
23. “I felt wise and cynical as all hell.” ~ (Sylvia Plath).
24. “And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter – they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long.” ~ (Sylvia Plath).
25. “Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.” ~ (Sylvia Plath).
26. “Intoxicated with madness, I’m in love with my sadness.” ~ (Sylvia Plath).
27. “I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.” ~ (Sylvia Plath).
28. “I think I am mad sometimes.” ~ (Sylvia Plath).
29. “Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.” ~ (Sylvia Plath).
30. “To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.” ~ (Sylvia Plath).
31. “The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.” ~ (Sylvia Plath).
Popular Sylvia Plath Quotes
32. “I write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still.” ~ (Sylvia Plath).
33. “I’d say go to hell, but I never want to see you again.” ~ (Sylvia Plath).
34. “I talk to God but the sky is empty.” ~ (Sylvia Plath).
35. “You are a dream; I hope I never meet you.” ~ (Sylvia Plath).
36. “If I didn’t think, I’d be much happier.” ~ (Sylvia Plath).
37. “We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.” ~ (Sylvia Plath).
38. “I know pretty much what I like and dislike; but please, don’t ask me who I am.” ~ (Sylvia Plath).
39. “Girls are not machines that you put kindness coins into until sex falls out.” ~ (Sylvia Plath).
40. “All I want is blackness. Blackness and silence.” ~ (Sylvia Plath).
41. “I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.” ~ (Sylvia Plath).
42. “Out of the ash I rise with my red hair and I eat men like air.” ~ (Sylvia Plath).
43. “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.” ~ (Sylvia Plath).
44. “I woke to the sound of rain.” ~ (Sylvia Plath).
Inspiring Sylvia Plath Quotes
45. “The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it.” ~ (Sylvia Plath).
46. “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.” ~ (Sylvia Plath).
47. “I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery – air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, “This is what it is to be happy.”” ~ (Sylvia Plath).
48. “Perhaps some day I’ll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.” ~ (Sylvia Plath).
49. “The floor seemed wonderfully solid. It was comforting to know I had fallen and could fall no farther.” ~ (Sylvia Plath).
50. “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 the throat and I’d cry for a week.” ~ (Sylvia Plath).