28 Sylvia Plath Quotes About Life, Love & More
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Sylvia Plath was a poet and author from the United States. She was noted for her stunning, visceral confessional poetry and prose that dealt with issues ranging from gender injustice to death concerns. She was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1932. Plath committed suicide in 1963 after a long battle with mental illness. Her writing, which is still heartbreaking and contemporary, bears witness to her ability.
Here is a collection of Sylvia Plath quotes for you to read.
Sylvia Plath Love Quotes
Plath composed several pieces about love, filled with tenderness and care throughout her career. Some of her work comments on the darker sides of romance and the pessimism that often accompanies affection. Here are some Sylvia Plath love quotes.
“I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give.“
SYLVIA PLATH
SOURCE: THE JOURNALS OF SYLVIA PLATH
“Ever since I was small I loved feeling somebody comb my hair. It made me go all sleepy and peaceful.”
SYLVIA PLATH
“Yes, I want the world’s praise, money, and love, and am furious with anyone…getting ahead of me.”
SYLVIA PLATH
“I am jealous of those who think more deeply, who write better, who draw better, who ski better, who look better, who live better, who love better than I.”
SYLVIA PLATH
“‘If you love her,’ I said, ‘you’ll love somebody else someday.’”
SYLVIA PLATH
SOURCE: THE BELL JAR
“There I went again, building up a glamorous picture of a man who would love me passionately the minute he met me, and all out of a few prosy nothings.”
SYLVIA PLATH
“Love is a desperate artifice to take the place of those two original parents who turned out not to be omnisciently right gods.”
SYLVIA PLATH
“I am, to be blunt and concise, in love only with myself, my puny being with its small inadequate breasts and meager, thin talents. I am capable of affection for those who reflect my own world.”
SYLVIA PLATH
“If they substituted the word ‘Lust‘ for ‘Love’ in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth.”
SYLVIA PLATH
“Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.”
SYLVIA PLATH
SOURCE: THE UNABRIDGED JOURNALS OF SYLVIA PLATH
“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.”
SYLVIA PLATH
Sylvia Plath Quotes About Death
Plath’s persistent thought about death is a topic that runs throughout her writing. Her sayings are worth considering because we all confront our mortality. Here are some Sylvia Plath quotes about death.
“Of course, I didn’t believe in life after death or the virgin birth or the Inquisition or the infallibility of that little monkey-faced Pope or anything, but I didn’t have to let the priest see this, I could just concentrate on my sin, and he would help me repent.”
SYLVIA PLATH
“I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn’t make up my mind which of the figs I would choose.”
SYLVIA PLATH
“What I fear most, I think, is the death of imagination.“
SYLVIA PLATH
“I told him I believed in hell, and that certain people, like me, had to live in hell before they died, to make up for missing out on it after death, since they didn’t believe in life after death, and what each person believed happened to him when he died.”
SYLVIA PLATH
“I have always been extremely fond of the definition of Death which says it is: Inaccessibility to Experience.”
SYLVIA PLATH
Sylvia Plath Quotes About Life
Plath’s poems are characterized by violent or disturbing imagery, which she addresses through alliteration and rhyme. The same you will find in her quotes, in which she sums up life’s most essential lessons in a few words. These Sylvia Plath quotes about life cover many topics and provides readers with valuable ideas to consider.
“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.“
SYLVIA PLATH
“We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.“
SYLVIA PLATH
“I was supposed to be having the time of my life.”
SYLVIA PLATH
“What is my life for and what am I going to do with it? I don’t know and I’m afraid. 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.“
SYLVIA PLATH
“ I felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I’d never seen before in my life.“
SYLVIA PLATH
“Wear your heart on your skin in this life.“
SYLVIA PLATH
“I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
SYLVIA PLATH
“You have to be able to make a real creative life for yourself, before you can expect anyone else to provide one ready-made for you.”
SYLVIA PLATH
In 1956, Sylvia Plath married Ted Hughes, a fellow poet, and the two lived together in the United States and subsequently England. Plath alleges abuse at his hands in her letters, and their relationship was stormy. Before divorcing in 1962, they had two children.
Plath was profoundly depressed for most of her adult life and was treated with electroconvulsive treatment several times (ECT). In 1963, she committed suicide.
Let us know which of these Sylvia Plath quotes deeply impacted your mind.
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