Life Quotes Quote by Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and defensless that I couldn't do it. It was as if what I wanted to kill wasn't in that skin or the thin blue pulse that jumped under my thumb, but somewhere else, deeper, more secret, and a whole lot harder to get.”

“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.”

“Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.”

“Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?”

“We all have such fateful objects — it may be a recurrent landscape in one case, a number in another — carefully chosen by the gods to attract events of specific significance for us: here shall John always stumble; there shall Jane's heart always break.”

“The exercise of an extraordinary gift is the supremest pleasure in life.”

“Life is at its best when everything has fallen out of place, and you decide that you're going to fight to get them right, not when everything is going your way and everyone is praising you.”

“Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.”