Sylvia Plath Quotes About Lying

Quotes about: Lying

• Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it

  Sylvia Plath

  Lying, Love Is, Shadow

  Sylvia Plath (2010). “Ariel”, p.18, Faber & Faber

• What have I eaten? Lies and smiles.

  Sylvia Plath

  Lying

  Sylvia Plath (2010). “Ariel: The Restored Edition”, p.30, Faber & Faber

• I didn’t want any flowers, I only wanted to lie with my hands turned up and be utterly empty. How free it is, you have no idea how free.

  Sylvia Plath

  Lying, Flower, Hands

  Sylvia Plath (2010). “Ariel”, p.14, Faber & Faber

• Sure, I’m dramatic and sloppily semi-cynical and semi-sentimental. But, in leisure years I could grow and choose my way. Now I am living on the edge. We all are on the brink, and it takes a lot of nerve, a lot of energy, to teeter on the edge, looking over, looking down into the windy blackness and not being quite able to make out, through the yellow, stinking mist, just what lies below in the slime, in the oozing, vomit-streaked slime; and so I could go on, my thoughts, writing much, trying to find the core, the meaning for myself.

  Sylvia Plath

  Lying, Writing, Years

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.32, Anchor

• Is it the sea you hear in me? Its dissatisfactions? Or the voice of nothing, that was your madness? Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it.

  Sylvia Plath

  Lying, Love Is, Sea

  Sylvia Plath (2010). “Ariel”, p.18, Faber & Faber

• I am still raw. I say I may be back. You know what lies are for. Even in your Zen heaven we shan't meet.

  Sylvia Plath

  Lying, Heaven, May

  Sylvia Plath (2010). “Ariel: The Restored Edition”, p.47, Faber & Faber

• When they asked some old Roman philosopher or other how he wanted to die, he said he would open his veins in a warm bath. I thought it would be easy, lying in the tup and seeing the redness flower from my wrists, flush after flush through the clear water, till I sank into sleep under a surface gaudy as poppies.

  Sylvia Plath

  Lying, Flower, Sleep

  Sylvia Plath (2008). “The Bell Jar”, p.110, Faber & Faber

• A ring of gold with the sun in it? Lies. Lies and a grief.

  Sylvia Plath

  Lying, Grief, Gold

  Sylvia Plath (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.199, Faber & Faber

• I didn’t want any flowers, I only wanted To lie with my hands turned up and be utterly empty. How free it is, you have no idea how free—— The peacefulness is so big it dazes you, And it asks nothing, a name tag, a few trinkets. It is what the dead close on, finally; I imagine them Shutting their mouths on it, like a Communion tablet.

  Sylvia Plath

  Lying, Flower, Hands

• Beached under the spumy blooms, we lie Sea-sick and fever-dry.

  Sylvia Plath

  Lying, Sea, Sick

  Sylvia Plath (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.135, Faber & Faber

• I am learning peacefulness, lying by myself quietly, as the light lies on these white walls, this bed, these hands. I am nobody; I have nothing to do with explosions.

  Sylvia Plath

  Wall, Lying, Light

  Sylvia Plath (2010). “Ariel”, p.14, Faber & Faber

• But when I took up my pen, my hand made big, jerky letters like those of a child, and the lines sloped down the page from left to right horizontally, as if they were loops of string lying on the paper, and someone had come along and blown them askew.

  Sylvia Plath

  Children, Lying, Hands

• One night she hid the pink cotton scarf from her raincoat in the pillowcase when the nurse came around to lock up her drawers and closets for the night. In the dark she had made a loop and tried to pull it tight around her throat. But always just as the air stopped coming and she felt the rushing grow louder in her ears, her hands would slacken and let go, and she would lie there panting for breath, cursing the dumb instinct in her body that fought to go on living

  Sylvia Plath

  Letting Go, Suicide, Lying

• You know what lies are for.

  Sylvia Plath

  Lying, Deceit, Knows

  Sylvia Plath (2010). “Ariel: The Restored Edition”, p.47, Faber & Faber

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