Inspiration Quote by Sylvia Plath — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“The human mind is so limited it can only build an arbitrary heaven — and usually the physical comforts they endow it with are naively the kind that can be perceived as we humans perceive — nothing more. No: perhaps I will awake to find myself burning in hell. I think not. I think I will be snuffed out. Black is sleep; black is a fainting spell; and black is death, with no light, no waking.”

“This is newness: every little tawdry”

“I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed”

“I need a father. I need a mother. I need some older, wiser being to cry to. I talk to God, but the sky is empty.”

“O love, how did you get here?”

“I am solitary as grass. What is it I miss?”

“No man was ever wise by chance.”

“Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of the imagination.”

“When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.”

“Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.”

“To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.”

“If we could learn to like ourselves, even a little, maybe our cruelties and angers might melt away.”