Quotes and Quotations

Memorable Quotes and quotations from Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath US novelist & poet (1932 - 1963)


Sylvia Plath -
- I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.

Sylvia Plath - The Journals of Sylvia Plath
- Everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it and the imagination to improvise.

Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar
- I fixed my eyes on the larget cloud, as if, when it passed out of my sight, I might have the good luck to pass with it.

Sylvia Plath -
- I talk to God, but the sky is empty.

Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar
- To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.

Sylvia Plath -
- Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.

Sylvia Plath -
- What did my hands do before they held you?