Sylvia Plath

“I desire the things which will destroy me in the end.”

“If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”

“The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”

“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”

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

“Let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences.”

“Kiss me and you will see how important I am.”

“To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.”

“The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.”

“I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, 'This is what it is to be happy.'”

“Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.”

“Out of the ash I rise with my red hair and I eat men like air.”

“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want.”

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

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise.”

“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my lids and all is born again.”

“I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo.”

“I write only because there is a voice within me that will not be still.”

“Wear your heart on your skin in this life.”

“I like people too much or not at all.”