Sylvia Plath Quotes About Sickness

Quotes about: Sickness

• Feel oddly barren. My sickness is when words draw in their horns and the physical world refuses to be ordered, recreated, arranged and selected. I am a victim of it then, not a master.

  Sylvia Plath

  World, Sickness, Victim

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.516, Anchor

• I inhabit the wax image of myself, a doll's body. Sickness begins here; I am a dartboard for witches.

  Sylvia Plath

  Here I Am, Body, Dolls

  Sylvia Plath (2012). “Sylvia Plath Poems Chosen by Carol Ann Duffy”, p.41, Faber & Faber

• The sickness rolled through me in great waves. After each wave it would fade away and leave me limp as a wet leaf and shivering all over and then I would feel it rising up in me again, and the glittering white torture chamber tiles under my feet and over my head and all four sides closed in and squeezed me to pieces.

  Sylvia Plath

  White, Rising Up, Feet

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.25, Hamilton Books

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