Quote

Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me a little? For all my despair, for all my ideals, for all that - I love life. But it is hard, and I have so much - so very much to learn.

Sylvia Plath

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Sylvia Plath
Age: 30 †
Born: 1932
Born: October 27
Died: 1963
Died: February 11
Autobiographer
Diarist
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
Victoria Lucas
Sylvia Plath Hughes
Life
Learn
Understand
Someone
Littles
Feminism
Little
Classic
Hard
Ideals
Much
Somewhere
Love
Despair

More quotes by Sylvia Plath

Image
Nothing is real except the present, and already, I feel the weight of centuries smothering me. Some girl a hundred years ago once lived as I do. And she is dead. I am the present, but I know I, too, will pass. The high moment, the burning flash, come and are gone, continuous quicksand. And I don’t want to die.
Sylvia Plath
Image
A million years of evolution, Eric said bitterly, and what are we? Animals.
Sylvia Plath
Image
I have let things slip, a thirty-year~old cargo boat Stubbornly hanging on to my name and address.
Sylvia Plath
Image
I started adding up all the things I couldn't do.
Sylvia Plath
Image
The sky leans on me, me, the one upright among all horizontals.
Sylvia Plath
Image
If they substituted the word 'Lust' for 'Love' in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth.
Sylvia Plath
Image
Then I decided I would spend the summer writing a novel. That would fix a lot of people.
Sylvia Plath
Image
I don’t care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual.
Sylvia Plath
Image
And I sit here without identity: faceless. My head aches.
Sylvia Plath
Image
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.
Sylvia Plath
Image
I like people too much or not at all. I've got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.
Sylvia Plath
Image
Even amidst fierce flames the golden lotus can be planted.
Sylvia Plath
Image
I had hoped, at my departure, I would feel sure and knowledgeable about everything that lay ahead -- after all, I had been analyzed. Instead, all I could see were question marks.
Sylvia Plath
Image
I couldn’t see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to.
Sylvia Plath
Image
Tomorrow is another day toward death.
Sylvia Plath
Image
I feel occasionally my skull will crack, fatigue is continuous - I only go from less exhausted to more exhausted & back again.
Sylvia Plath
Image
I would say everything should be able to come into a poem, but I can't put toothbrushes into a poem, I really can't!
Sylvia Plath
Image
Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning.
Sylvia Plath
Image
Oh what a poet I will flay myself into.
Sylvia Plath
Image
I never feel so much myself as when I'm in a hot bath.
Sylvia Plath