Sylvia Plath

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn't thought about it.”

“So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed, and afterward you went about numb as a slave in some private, totalitarian state.”

“If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.”

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

“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.”