Sylvia Plath World Quotations

It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.

I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow.

I must be lean & write & make worlds beside this to live in.

Feel oddly barren. My sickness is when words draw in their horns and the physical world refuses to be ordered, recreated, arranged and selected. I am a victim of it then, not a master.

It is a terrible thing to be so open: it is as if my heart put on a face and walked into the world.

Doing all the little tricky things it takes to grow up, step by step, into an anxious and unsettling world.

If every soldier refused to take arms ... there would be no wars; but no one has the courage to be the first to live according to Christ and Socrates, because in a world of opportunists they would be martyred.

I need not to be more with others, but to be more & more deeply, richly alone. Recreating worlds.

I felt like a racehorse in a world without racetracks.

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.

To annihilate the world by annihilation of oneself is the deluded height of desperate egoism.

Your body Hurts me as the world hurts God

I have the one person I could ever love in this world. Now I must work to be a person worthy of that.