59 quotes
I desire the things which will destroy me in the end.
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (2000)
If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
The Bell Jar (1963)
The blood of love welled up in my heart with a slow pain.
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (2000)
What a man is is an arrow into the future and what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from.
The Bell Jar (1963)
To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is the bad dream.
The Bell Jar (1963)
There ought, I thought, to be a ritual for being born twice - patched, retreaded and approved for the road.
The Bell Jar (1963)
There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.
The Bell Jar (1963)
I thought a spectacular change would come over me the day I crossed the boundary line.
The Bell Jar (1963)
I thought how strange it had never occurred to me before that I was only purely happy until I was nine years old.
The Bell Jar (1963)
I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am.
The Bell Jar (1963)
Out of the ash
I rise with my red hair
And I eat men like air.
I never feel so much myself as when I'm in a hot bath.
The Bell Jar (1963)
The one thing I was good at was winning scholarships and prizes, and that era was coming to an end.
The Bell Jar (1963)
I am jealous of men. I envy the man his physical freedom to lead a double life.
Every woman adores a Fascist,
The boot in the face, the brute
Brute heart of a brute like you.
It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York.
The Bell Jar (1963)
How frail the human heart must be —
a mirrored pool of thought.
Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children.
Ariel (1965)
There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room.
The Bell Jar (1963)
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my lids and all is born again.
Mad Girl's Love Song (1953)