Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
I wonder why I don't go to bed and go to sleep. But then it would be tomorrow, so I decide that no matter how tired, no matter how incoherent I am, I can skip on hour more of sleep and live.
Sylvia Plath
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Sleep
Incoherent
Hours
Skip
Live
Decide
Matter
Bed
Would
Hour
Life
Tired
Tomorrow
Wonder
More quotes by Sylvia Plath
God, how I ricochet between certainties and doubts.
Sylvia Plath
I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane. (I think I made you up inside my head.)
Sylvia Plath
Why can’t I try on different lives, like dresses, to see which fits best and is more becoming?
Sylvia Plath
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
It never occurred to me to say no.
Sylvia Plath
I love life. But it is hard and I have so much, so very much to learn.
Sylvia Plath
I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.
Sylvia Plath
For the few little successes I may seem to have, there are acres of misgivings and self-doubt.
Sylvia Plath
What I didn't say was that each time I picked up a German dictionary or a German book, the very sight of those dense, black, barbed-wire letters made my mind shut like a clam.
Sylvia Plath
Sometimes I nursed starfish alive in jam jars of seawater and watched them grow back lost arms. On this day, this awful birthday of otherness, my rival, somebody else, I flung the starfish against a stone. Let it perish.
Sylvia Plath
…beating time along the edge of thought.
Sylvia Plath
What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.
Sylvia Plath
I had always imagined myself hitching up on to my elbows on the delivery table after it was all over - dead white, of course, with no makeup and from the awful ordeal, but smiling and radiant, with my hair down to my waist, and reaching out for my first little squirmy child and saying its name, whatever it was.
Sylvia Plath
There is a certain clinical satisfaction in seeing just how bad things can get.
Sylvia Plath
Why the hell are we conditioned into the smooth strawberry-and-cream Mother-Goose-world, Alice-in-Wonderland fable, only to be broken on the wheel as we grow older and become aware of ourselves as individuals with a dull responsibility in life?
Sylvia Plath
You cannot regard your own life with objective curiosity all the time.
Sylvia Plath
I dream too much, work too little.
Sylvia Plath
A terrible depression yesterday. Visions of my life petering out into a kind of soft-brained stupor from lack of use.
Sylvia Plath
I am myself. That is not enough.
Sylvia Plath
How can I tell Bob that my happiness streams from having wrenched a piece out of my life, a piece of hurt and beauty, and transformed it to typewritten words on paper? How can he know I am justifying my life, my keen emotions, my feeling, by turning it into print?
Sylvia Plath