Sylvia Plath Inspirational Quotes

Quotes about: Inspirational

• I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.

  Sylvia Plath

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

• There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.

  Sylvia Plath

  Inspirational, Sad, Women

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.12, Hamilton Books

• The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

  Sylvia Plath

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.545, Anchor

• Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.

  Sylvia Plath

  Inspirational, Goal, Feminism

• I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give.

  Sylvia Plath

  Love, Inspirational, Acceptance

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.286, Anchor

• Why the hell are we conditioned into the smooth strawberry-and-cream Mother-Goose-world, Alice-in-Wonderland fable, only to be broken on the wheel as we grow older and become aware of ourselves as individuals with a dull responsibility in life?

  Sylvia Plath

  Inspirational, Mother, Responsibility

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.35, Anchor

• Some things are hard to write about. After something happens to you, you go to write it down, and either you over dramatize it, or underplay it, exaggerate the wrong parts or ignore the important ones. At any rate, you never write it quite the way you want to.

  Sylvia Plath

  Inspirational, Writing, Important

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.10, Anchor

• The artist's life nourishes itself on the particular, the concrete.

  Sylvia Plath

  Inspirational, Artist, Concrete

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.170, Anchor

• The one man in the room who was as big as his poems, huge, with hulk and dynamic chunks of words.

  Sylvia Plath

  Inspirational, Men, Rooms

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.212, Anchor

• You ask me why I spend my life writing? Do I find entertainment? Is it worthwhile? Above all, does it pay? If not, then, is there a reason?... I write only because there is a voice within me. That will not be still.

  Sylvia Plath

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Sylvia Plath (2011). “Letters Home”, p.56, Faber & Faber

• If they substituted the word 'Lust' for 'Love' in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth.

  Sylvia Plath

  Inspirational, Song, Lust

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.16, Anchor

• Read widely of others' experiences, even if it'd be more comfortable to snuggle back in the comforting cotton-wool of blissful ignorance.

  Sylvia Plath

  Inspirational, Life, Ignorance

• I may never be happy, but tonight I am content.

  Sylvia Plath

  Inspirational, Happiness, Tonight

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.8, Anchor

• 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

  Inspirational, Hurt, Games

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

• I began to see why woman-haters could make such fools of women. Woman-haters were like gods: invulnerable and chock full of power. They descended, and then they disappeared. You could never catch one.

  Sylvia Plath

  Inspirational, Women, Fool

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.57, Hamilton Books

• 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

• You have to be able to make a real creative life for Yourself, before you can expect anyone Else to provide one ready-made for you.

  Sylvia Plath

  Inspirational, Real, Creative

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.85, Anchor

• I must bridge the gap between adolescent glitter and mature glow.

  Sylvia Plath

  Inspirational, Bridges, Glitter

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.188, Anchor

• Do we always grind through the present, doomed to throw a gold haze of fond retrospect over the past?

  Sylvia Plath

  Inspirational, Past, Gold

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.195, Anchor

• I am so hungry for a big smashing creative burgeoning burdened love.

  Sylvia Plath

  Inspirational, Creative, Hungry

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.131, Anchor

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