Sylvia Plath Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old Sylvia Plath quotes, Sylvia Plath sayings, and Sylvia Plath proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

Doing all the little tricky things it takes to grow up, step by step, into an anxious and unsettling world. Sylvia Plath
Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow. Sylvia Plath
The silence depressed me.? It wasn't the silence of silence.? It was my own silence.? Sylvia Plath
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again. Sylvia Plath
If the body is a temple, then tattoos are its stained glass windows. Sylvia Plath
Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing. Sylvia Plath
Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children. Sylvia Plath
There is so much hurt in this game of searching for a mate, of testing, trying. And you realize suddenly that you forgot it was a game, and turn away in tears. Sylvia Plath
And the danger is that in this move toward new horizons and far directions, that I may lose what I have now, and not find anything except loneliness. Sylvia Plath
Is there no way out of the mind. Sylvia Plath
If they substituted the word 'Lust' for 'Love' in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth. Sylvia Plath
One should be able to control and manipulate experiences with an informed and intelligent mind. Sylvia Plath
August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time. Sylvia Plath
The blood of love welled up in my heart with a slow pain. Sylvia Plath
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
When you give someone your whole heart and he doesn't want it, you cannot take it back. It's gone forever. Sylvia Plath
Empty, I echo to the least football. Sylvia Plath
The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. Sylvia Plath
The frost makes a flower, the dew makes a star. Sylvia Plath
Can nothingness be so prodigal? Sylvia Plath
There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them. Sylvia Plath
It seemed silly to wash one day when I would only have to wash again the next. It made me tired just to think of it. Sylvia Plath
Winter dawn is the color of metal, The trees stiffen into place like burnt nerves. Sylvia Plath
August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time. Sylvia Plath
The blood jet is poetry There is no stopping it.” Sylvia Plath
The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. Sylvia Plath
If the moon smiled, she would resemble you. You leave the same impression Of something beautiful, but annihilating. Sylvia Plath
A time of darkness, despair, disillusion-so black only the inferno of the human mind can be-symbolic death, and numb shock-then the painful agony of slow rebirth and psychic regeneration. Sylvia Plath
What did my arms do before they held you? Sylvia Plath
That afternoon my mother had brought me the roses. "Save them for my funeral," I'd said. Sylvia Plath