Top 100 Sylvia Quotes
#1. I'd rather argue with you, angel, than laugh with anyone else."
Jesus. It took me a minute to be able to swallow the last bite in my mouth.
"You know ... I love you madly."
He smiled. "Yes, I know.
Sylvia Day
#2. From the moment she'd first seen him in the Fontaine ballroom, she'd been lost. The passionate kiss a week later had destroyed her. Even now she could feel the heat of his expert lips against hers, and the remembrance of his taste made her mouth water.
Sylvia Day
#4. He hymns the rotten queen with saffron hair
Who has saltier aphrodisiacs
Than virgins' tears. That bawdy queen of death,
Her wormy couriers are at his bones.
Still he hymns juice of her, hot nectarine.
Sylvia Plath
#5. Modern women are squeezed between the devil and the deep blue sea, and there are no lifeboats out there in the form of public policies designed to help these women combine their roles as mothers and as workers.
Sylvia Ann Hewlett
#6. We woke up some years ago about the consequences of ozone depletion, the hole in the atmosphere. You can't see it. You can't taste it. You can't smell it. But now we do regard that as a key issue. It's a scientific finding.
Sylvia Earle
#7. Every time I slip into the ocean, it's like going home.
Sylvia Earle
#8. You're toying with one of my people,"
she said coldly, watching impassively as he lifted her hand to his mouth.
"You never used to be cruel"
"I used to have a heart," he drawled "and then someone broke it.
Sylvia Day
#9. Secretly, in studies and attics and schoolrooms all over America, people must be writing.
Sylvia Plath
#10. Sometimes I feel so stupid and dull and uncreative that I am amazed when people tell me differently.
Sylvia Plath
#11. It's so sad: anything that has to do with God, people want to dispel.
Sylvia Browne
#12. Must a man then live as his fellows live, and never reach beyond? - Georyn
Sylvia Engdahl
#15. You showed me what love truly is just by giving yours so selflessly. I wasn't made for love. It wasn't [woven]into the fabric of my being. I didn't know what it was, what I was looking for, what I needed. I had no point of reference, no examples, nothing. Until you.
Sylvia Day
#16. Why the hell are we conditioned into the smooth strawberry-and-cream Mother-Goose-world, Alice-in-Wonderland fable, only to be broken on the wheel as we grow older and become aware of ourselves as individuals with a dull responsibility in life?
Sylvia Plath
#17. I don't expect too much from the afterlife, I think that I know very well what pain is. When I think of the end of my life, I think mainly: I didn't do nothing, but I could have done more.
Sylvia Kristel
#18. She's my mate; that makes her mine. Forgetting that will see your neck no longer serving its purpose." "I love it when you talk dirty," she purred. "Give my regards to Lindsay.
Sylvia Day
#19. The consequences of love affairs would stop me from my independent freedom of creative activity, and I don't intend to be stopped.
Sylvia Plath
#20. The decision to have a child is both a private and a public decision, for children are our collective future.
Sylvia Ann Hewlett
#21. What I didn't say was that each time I picked up a German dictionary or a German book, the very sight of those dense, black, barbed-wire letters made my mind shut like a clam.
Sylvia Plath
#23. 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
#24. There's nothing like a little Gideon therapy to make things look up.
Sylvia Day
#25. I'm going out, remember?" I prodded. "And I'm going to drink too much, which makes me horny. Don't forget to take your vitamins, ace.
Sylvia Day
#26. Nooooooo ... favorite film, that's like asking if you have a favorite kid!
Sylvia Sidney
#27. Back then I didn't think a woman like that, or a relationship like that, could exist with complete freedom and no jealousy or possessiveness. I thought it sounded too good to be true and I was certainly convinced it wasn't the life for me!
Sylvia Kristel
#28. No matter how much you knelt and prayed, you still had to eat three meals a day and have a job and live in the world.
Sylvia Plath
#29. Angel, a crowd of millions couldn't hide you from me. I found you once. I'll always find you.
Sylvia Day
#30. Large areas of the Gulf have escaped being scraped by trawls, crushed by more than 40,000 miles of pipelines, or displaced by one of 50,000 oil and gas wells drilled since the middle of the 20th century. Some places have been deliberately protected.
Sylvia Earle
#32. I thought how strange it had never occurred to me before that I was only purely happy until I was nine years old.
Sylvia Plath
#33. Surrender means wisely accommodating ourselves to what is beyond our control.
Sylvia Boorstein
#34. I couldn't see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to.
Sylvia Plath
#35. I am sure there are things that can't be cured by a good bath but I can't think of one.
Sylvia Plath
#36. People who love each other can no more keep from communicating than from breathing. - Elana
Sylvia Engdahl
#37. There was nothing so attractive as a powerful, handsome, and self-assured man.
Sylvia Day
#38. I want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life. I can't be satisfied with the colossal job of merely living. Oh, no, I must order life in sonnets and sestinas and provide a verbal reflector for my 60-watt lighted head.
Sylvia Plath
#39. He lounged on his side, bare-chested and barefooted, his jeans unbuttoned to show both the waistband of his underwear and the sleek lines of his ripped abs. His dark brown hair was sexily mussed and his emerald eyes were bright with mischief.
Sylvia Day
#40. What has patriotism come to be but greed and false pride, when the only way it can show itself is by shedding blood to gain gold? More economic advantage, more territory, more power.
Sylvia Thompson
#41. People who talk too much are only digging their own grave.
Sylvia L'Namira
#44. If you leave, we lose and our pasts win.
Sylvia Day
#45. Was Lucifer a demon determined to ruin Eve and spawn a species of monsters? Or was he a fallen angel so in love with a human woman he destroyed paradise for a kiss? We will never know. And perhaps we shouldn't ask why Lucifer tempted Eve at all, but another question: Why did she give in?
Sylvia Frost
#46. Talking about my fears to others feeds it.
Sylvia Plath
#47. I want everybody to go jump in the ocean to see for themselves how beautiful it is, how important it is to get acquainted with fish swimming in the ocean, rather than just swimming with lemon slices and butter.
Sylvia Earle
#48. And there is the fallacy of existence: the idea that one would be happy forever and aye with a given situation or series of accomplishments.
Sylvia Plath
#50. O my
Homunculus, I am ill.
I have taken a pill to kill
The thin
Papery feeling.
From the poem "Cut", 24 October 1962
Sylvia Plath
#51. America gains most when individuals have great freedom to pursue personal goals without undue government interference.
Sylvia Earle
#52. Only I wasn't steering anything, not even myself.
Sylvia Plath
#53. Sylvia smiled at her like a wily fox.
Tasha Blue
#54. I found myself pinned to the hallway wall by six feet, two inches of hard, hot male.
Sylvia Day
#55. You've got to have as many good times as bad, or it all becomes too painful and too much work.
Sylvia Day
#56. I can still feel you, Eva. Still taste you. I've been
hard since you left, through two meetings and one
teleconference. You've got the advantage, state
your demands.
Sylvia Day
#57. I, to you, am lost in the gorgeous errors of flesh.
Sylvia Plath
#58. Women's evolution unfolded through stages in the last 100 years. The first stage was "Wonder Woman," an idealized figure who functioned like
Sylvia Becker-Hill
#59. You are only young once. At the time it seems endless, and is gone in a flash; and then for a very long time you are old.
Sylvia Townsend Warner
#60. If I have a dry spell ... I wait and live harder, eyes, ears, and heart open, and when the productive time comes, it is that much richer.
Sylvia Plath
#61. I think God gave every one of us a cell phone, we just dropped it.
Sylvia Browne
#62. Look at me, Sylvia. Because I'm not going to say this again. I told you once that I'm a man who goes after what he wants, and I want you in my bed. I want to feel you naked and hot beneath me. I want to hear you cry out when you come, and I want to know that I am the man who took you there.
Anonymous
#63. Every woman adores a Fascist,
The boot in the face, the brute
Brute heart of a brute like you.
Sylvia Plath
#64. I want to feel deeply, and whenever I am brokenhearted I emerge more compassionate. I think I allow myself to be brokenhearted more easily, knowing I won't be irrevocably shattered [p. 59]
Sylvia Boorstein
#65. Remember how you asked me where would I like to live best, the country or the city?"
"And you said ... "
"And I said I wanted to live in the country and in the city both?
Sylvia Plath
#67. Though it's quite clear all your beauty, all your wit, is a gift, my dear, from me.
Sylvia Plath
#68. His smile was like lightning in the darkness, blinding and beautiful and mysterious, and I wanted him so badly it was physically painful.
Sylvia Day
#69. No matter how close we were, it was never close enough.
Sylvia Day
#70. What a man wants is a mate and what a woman wants is infinite security,' and, 'What a man is is an arrow into the future and a what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from.
Sylvia Plath
#71. Whenever I'm sad I'm going to die, or so nervous I can't sleep, or in love with somebody I won't be seeing for a week, I slump down just so far and then I say: 'I'll go take a hot bath.
Sylvia Plath
#72. I flipped the good doctor the bird.
Snorting, Gideon caught my hand and pulled me back down the hall.
"What is it with you and giving people the finger?"
"What? It's a classic.
Sylvia Day
#73. when he added, "I'm sorry I haven't been much help
Sylvia Nobel
#74. We don't get a choice about what hand we are dealt in this life.
Sylvia Boorstein
#75. 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
#76. If only a group of people were more important to me than the idea of a Novel, I might begin a novel.
Sylvia Plath
#78. Recently we've been hearing a lot about women "having it all." Myself, I think that is not really an accurate description of female lives today. It seems to me that what we have been up to is DOING it all.
Sylvia Ann Hewlett
#79. You think you can say a few words and end us? There is no end, Eva.
Sylvia Day
#80. Banks can't recoup the costs of serving customers who save in small amounts and transact frequently.
Sylvia Mathews Burwell
#81. Eternity bores me,
I never wanted it.
From the poem "Years", 16 November 1962
Sylvia Plath
#82. I am thankful that thus far today I have not had any unkind thoughts or said any harsh words or done anything that I regret. However, now I need to get out of bed and so things may become more difficult.
Sylvia Boorstein
#83. Punishing potty errors after they've happened is perhaps the most common training mistake; it only aggravates the problem. Going
Dawn Sylvia-Stasiewicz
#84. 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
#85. When I first ventured into the Gulf of Mexico in the 1950s, the sea appeared to be a blue infinity too large, too wild to be harmed by anything that people could do.
Sylvia Earle
#86. What we must do is encourage a sea change in attitude, one that acknowledges that we are a part of the living world, not apart from it.
Sylvia Earle
#87. When you are insane, you are busy being insane - all the time.
Sylvia Plath
#88. I must be lean & write & make worlds beside this to live in.
Sylvia Plath
#89. My choices were either too much alcohol or a whirl with my vibrator, and I was damned if I'd have a battery-provided orgasm starring Dark and Dangerous.
Sylvia Day
#90. Since the middle of the 20th century, more has been learnt about the ocean than during all preceding human history; at the same time, more has been lost.
Sylvia Earle
#91. Shut up in public those bloody private wounds.
Sylvia Plath
#93. The black instrument on the hall table trilled its hysterical note over and over, like a nervous bird.
Sylvia Plath
#95. The silence between us was so profound I thought part of it must be my fault.
Sylvia Plath
#96. She is an ice princess, that one. Your brother had best pray she breeds quickly or risk losing his cock to frostbite.
Sylvia Day
#97. Contentment and happiness didn't exist in my life for more than a few moments at a time, and they were really only illusionary. There was always something hidden. Lying in wait to spring up and ruin everything.
Sylvia Day
#98. In that valley the train shrieks echo like souls on hooks.
Sylvia Plath
#99. Some of my most precious moments of insight have been those in which I have seen clearly that gratitude is the only possible response." (Sylvia Boorstein, from "You Don't Look Buddhist")
Sylvia Boorstein
#100. On a low coffee table, with circular and semicircular stains bitten into the dark veneer, lay a few wilted numbers of Time and Life. I flipped to the middle of the nearest magazine. The face of Eisenhower beamed up at me, bald and blank as the face of a fetus in a bottle.
Sylvia Plath
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