Journals Of Sylvia Plath Quotes

#1. There is history to read- centuries to comprehend before I sleep, millions of lives to assimilate before breakfast tomorrow.

Sylvia Plath

#2. I'll call you. Take care." And he was gone. So the rain comes down hard outside my room, and like Eddie Cohen," I say, "... fifteen thousand years - - - of what? We're still nothing but animals.

Sylvia Plath

#3. Millions of people are suffering: they want to be loved but they don't know how to love. And love cannot exist as a monologue; it is a dialogue, a very harmonious dialogue.

Osho

#4. Life was not to be sitting in hot amorphic leisure in my backyard idly writing or not writing, as the spirit moved me. It was, instead, running madly, in a crowded schedule, in a squirrel cage of busy people. Working, living, dancing, dreaming, talking, kissing- singing, laughing, learning.

Sylvia Plath

#5. to be aware that you must compete somehow, and yet that wealth and beauty are not in your realm.

Sylvia Plath

#6. Limits are possibilities ... Formal restrictions, contrary to what you might think, free you up by allowing you to concentrate on purer ideas ... You can be crippled by too many choices, especially if you don't know what your goals are.

Chip Kidd

#7. I can't take things as they come, or make them come as I choose.

Sylvia Plath

#8. I can only hazard. In the back of my mind there are bombs falling, women and children screaming, but I can't describe it now.

Sylvia Plath

#9. Don't do this.
I have every intention of doing this. I have since the first time you looked at me with the same need that I felt every damn day.

B.B. Reid

#10. but the very content that comes from finding yourself is overshadowed by the knowledge that by doing so you are admitting you are not only a grotesque, but a special kind of grotesque.

Sylvia Plath

#11. It was inestimably important for me to look at the lights of Amherst town in the rain, with the wet black tree-skeletons against the limpid streetlights and gray November mist, and then look at the boy beside me and feel all the hurting beauty go flat because he wasn't the right one-not at all.

Sylvia Plath

#12. With me, the present is forever, and forever is always shifting, flowing, melting. This second is life. And when it is gone it is dead. But you can't start over with each new second. You have to judge by what is dead. It's like quicksand ... hopeless from the start.

Sylvia Plath

#13. Almost, I think, the unreasoning, bestial purity was best.

Sylvia Plath

#14. I think I am mad sometimes.

Sylvia Plath

#15. If you think beauty insipid, you haven't experienced it. Nor is it always devoid of suffering. That's something religious artists have always understood, Michelangelo, Chagall, and Van Gogh, Beethoven, C.S. Lewis, and all the writer's for whom beauty is a gift and a calling.

Kristen Heitzmann

#16. I am I because of that.

Sylvia Plath

#17. We've learned that project by project, you can't change millions and millions of lives.

Howard Graham Buffett

#18. Writing, then, was a substitute for myself: if you don't love me, love my writing & love me for my writing. It is also much more: a way of ordering and reordering the chaos of experience.

Sylvia Plath

#19. If you were quiet about something then it never happened. Someone would write a song about it for sure. Everything you're not supposed to know about, or talk about, eventually turned up in a song. Some

Jennifer Clement