Top 35 Sylvia Plath The Bell Jar Quotes
#1. I don't know how long I kept at it ...
I felt reasonably safe, streched out on the floor, and lay quite still.
It didn't seem to be summer any more
Sylvia Plath
#3. It's much easier to make jokes about sensitive issues if there is some dissent, some conflict.
Mo Rocca
#4. Elaine sat on the breezeway in an old yellow nightgown of her mother's waiting for something to happen.' [ ... ] I sat like that for about an hour, trying to think what would come next, and in my mind, the barefoot doll in her mother's old yellow nightgown sat and stared into space as well.
Sylvia Plath
#5. I couldn't stand the idea of a woman having to have a single pure life and a man being able to have a double life, one pure and one not.
Sylvia Plath
#6. All the heat and fear had purged itself. I felt surprisingly at peace. The bell jar hung suspended a few feet above my head. I was open to the circulating air.
Sylvia Plath
#7. Sometimes I wondered if I had made Joan up. Other times I wondered if she would continue to pop in at every crisis of my life to remind me of what I had been, and what I had been through, and carry on her own separate but similar crisis under my nose.
Sylvia Plath
#8. Doreen is dissolving, Lenny Shepherd is dissolving, Frankie is dissolving, New York is dissolving, they are all dissolving away and none of them matter anymore.I don't know them. I have never known them and I am very pure.
Sylvia Plath
#9. Sylvia Plath is there for me when actual living people upon who I have depended upon my whole life, are not. What I mean to say is, without her words, I'd be exponentially more messed up than I am already.
Arlaina Tibensky
#10. She was wishing Adam was here.
Now wasn't that a scary realization to her inner, overly independent, I-am-woman-who-will-never-need-a-man-so-hear-me-roar, feminine badass self?" ~ Jenna
Jessie Lane
#11. In the infinitesimal glow of the stars,
the trees and flowers were strewing
their cool odos. There was no moon.
Sylvia Plath
#12. Foster children are disproportionately victims of identity theft.
James Langevin
#14. That afternoon my mother had brought me the roses.
"Save them for my funeral," I'd said.
Sylvia Plath
#16. It's funny because when I'm outside Australia, I never get to do my Australian accent in anything. It's always a Danish accent or an English accent or an American accent.
Mallory Jansen
#17. I wanted to be where nobody I knew could ever come.
Sylvia Plath
#19. My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.
Sylvia Plath
#20. Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
Sylvia Plath
#21. I need more than anything right now what is, of course, most impossible, someone to love me, to be with me at night when I wake up in shuddering horror and fear of the cement tunnels leading down to the shock room, to comfort me with an assurance that no psychiatrist can quite manage to convey.
Sylvia Plath
#22. In photography one should surely proceed from essence of the object and attempt to represent it with photographic terms alone.
Albert Renger-Patzsch
#23. I sank back in the gray, plush seat and closed my eyes. The air of the bell jar wadded round me and I couldn't stir.
Sylvia Plath
#24. Is to throw together events from my own life, fictionalizing to add color - it's a pot boiler really, but I think it will show how isolated a person feels when he is suffering a breakdown ... I've tried to picture my world and the people in it as seen through the distorting lens of a bell jar.
Sylvia Plath
#25. To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.
Sylvia Plath
#26. Power BI Desktop has absolutely no dependencies on Excel or Office.
Edward Price
#27. I waited, as if the sea could make my decision for me.
Sylvia Plath
#29. I would have thought that they [Boris Johnson and Nigel Farag] would have had a plan,instead of developing a plan they are leaving the boat.
Jean-Claude Juncker
#30. I reckon a good poem lasts a whole lot longer than a hundred of those people put together.
Sylvia Plath
#33. I didn't know what I was doing in New York.
Sylvia Plath
#34. Not easy to state the change you made.
If I'm alive now, I was dead,
Though, like a stone, unbothered by it.
Sylvia Plath
#35. The thought that I might kill myself formed in my mind coolly as a tree or a flower.
Sylvia Plath
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