Sylvia Plath Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.

  Sylvia Plath

  Ideas, Feminism, Age

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.328, Anchor

• I always was interested in prose. As a teenager, I published short stories. And I always wanted to write the long short story, I wanted to write a novel. Now that I have attained, shall I say, a respectable age, and have had experiences, I feel much more interested in prose, in the novel. I feel that in a novel, for example, you can get in toothbrushes and all the paraphernalia that one finds in dally life, and I find this more difficult in poetry.

  Sylvia Plath

  Teenager, Writing, Long

  Source: www.english.illinois.edu

• So much working, reading, thinking, living to do. A lifetime is not long enough. Nor youth to old age long enough. Immortality and permanence be damned. Sure I want them, but they are nonexistent, and won't matter when I rot underground. All I want to say is: I made the best of a mediocre job. It was a good fight while it lasted. And so life goes.

  Sylvia Plath

  Jobs, Reading, Fighting

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

• A psychiatrist is the god of our age. But they cost money.

  Sylvia Plath

  Age, Cost, Psychiatrist

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.62, Anchor

• And there's the fallacy of existence: the idea that one could be happy forever and age with a given situation or series of accomplishments.

  Sylvia Plath

  Inspirational, Ideas, Accomplishment

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.62, Anchor

• I am not a historian, but I find myself being more and more fascinated by history and now I find myself reading more and more about history. I am very interested in Napoleon, at the present: I'm very interested in battles, in wars, in Gallipoli, the First World War and so on, and I think that as I age I am becoming more and more historical. I certainly wasn't at all in my early twenties.

  Sylvia Plath

  War, Reading, Thinking

  Source: www.english.illinois.edu

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