Sylvia Plath Quotes

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• Opinions are like orgasms...mine matters most and I really don't care if you have one.

  Sylvia Plath

  Care, Matter, Opinion

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• After all, we are nothing more or less than we choose to reveal.

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• It's a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It's much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all.

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  Being Yourself, Responsibility, Hell

  Sylvia Plath (2000). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950-1962”, Anchor

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• Intoxicated with madness, I'm in love with my sadness

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  Sadness, Madness, Intoxicated

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• I wish you’d find the exit out of my head.

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  Wish, Exit, Wish You

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• Love life day by day, color by color, touch by touch.

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  Love Life, Color

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.37, Anchor

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  Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.

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  Rooms, Prison, Your Room

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• 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.

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  Life, Memories, Taken

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.14, Anchor

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• If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.

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  Expectations, Feminism, Classic

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• Good to know that if I ever need attention all I have to do is die.

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  Needs, Attention, Knows

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• 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.

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  Long, Goal, Trying

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.47, Anchor

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• The constant struggle in mature life, I think, is to accept the necessity of tragedy and conflict, and not to try to escape to some falsely simple solution which does not include these more somber complexities.

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  Struggle, Simple, Thinking

  Sylvia Plath (2011). “Letters Home”, p.301, Faber & Faber

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• The hardest thing, I think, is to live richly in the present, without letting it be tainted & spoiled out of fear for the future or regret for a badly-managed past.

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  Regret, Past, Feminism

  "Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume I: 1940–1956".

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• What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.

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  Thinking, Imagination

  Sylvia Plath (2011). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.226, Faber & Faber

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• 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.

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  Chaos, Cold, Kind

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• The frost makes a flower, the dew makes a star.

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  Stars, Flower, Dew

  Sylvia Plath (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.205, Faber & Faber

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• 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 life. And I am horribly limited.

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  Famous Inspirational, Book, Skills

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• Why do we electrocute men for murdering an individual and then pin a purple heart on them for mass slaughter of someone arbitrarily labeled “enemy?

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  Heart, Men, Purple

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.46, Anchor

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• So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.

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  Reading, Thinking, Long

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.149, Anchor

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• If I didn’t think, I’d be much happier.

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  Happiness, Happy, Thinking

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.15, Anchor

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• I am afraid of getting older … I am afraid of getting married. Spare me from cooking three meals a day—spare me from the relentless cage of routine and rote. I want to be free…. I want, I want to think, to be omniscient…. I think I would like to call myself ‘The girl who wanted to be God.

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  Girl, Thinking, Cooking

  Sylvia Plath (2011). “Letters Home”, p.66, Faber & Faber

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• When you give someone your whole heart and he doesn't want it, you cannot take it back. It's gone forever.

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  Heartbreak, Betrayal, Unrequited Love

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• I'm sarcastic, skeptical, and sometimes callous because I'm still afraid, deep down, of letting myself be hurt.

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  Sarcastic, Hurt, Sometimes

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• Character is fate.

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  Character, Fate

  Sylvia Plath (2011). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.34, Faber & Faber

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• Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.

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  Hours, Day Life

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, Anchor

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