Sylvia Plath Want Quotations

It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.

All I want is blackness. Blackness and silence.

I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.

Please, I want so badly for the good things to happen.

I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.

I like you, but not too much. I don’t want to like anybody too much.

I want to become acutely aware of all I've taken for granted.

I want to be silverly beautiful.

Don't talk to me about the world needing cheerful stuff! What the person out of Belsen physical or psychological wants is nobody saying the birdies still go tweet-tweet, but the full knowledge that somebody else has been there and knows the worst, just what it is like.

What a man wants is a mate and what a woman wants is infinite security.

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.

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.

When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn’t know. "Oh, sure you know," the photographer said. "She wants," said Jay Cee wittily, "to be everything.

I want to kill myself, to escape from responsiblity, to crawl abjectly back into the womb.