Quotes from Sylvia Plath

Death may whiten in sun or out of it.

I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.

Believe in some beneficent force beyond your own limited self. God, god, god: where are you? I want you, need you: the belief in you and love and mankind.

She looks like a woman who has found it ridiculous to commit herself to a single emotional stance in anything, but must always ride high heavy irony.

I am disabused of all faith, and see too clearly.

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

Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning.

I know the bottom, she says. I know it with my great tap root: It is what you fear. I do not fear it: I have been there.

My worst habit is my fear & my destructive rationalizing.

I am terrified by this dark thing That sleeps in me; All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity.

I do not fear it: I have been there.

We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.

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.

Here I am, a bundle of past recollections and future dreams, knotted up in a reasonably attractive bundle of flesh. I remember what this flesh has gone through; I dream of what it may go through.

And if you have no past or future which, after all, is all that the present is made of, why then you may as well dispose of the empty shell of present and commit suicide.

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

I love him to hell and back and heaven and back, and have and do and will