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#1

“I also hate people to ask cheerfully how you are when they know you're feeling like hell and expect you to say "fine”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

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#2

“She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

tags: existence, reflection

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#3

“I couldn't stand the idea of a woman having to have a single pure life and a man being able to have a double life, one pure and one not.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

tags: sexism, the-bell-jar

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#4

“I opened the door and blinked out into the bright hall. I had the impression it wasn't night and it wasn't day, but some lurid third interval that had suddenly slipped between them and would never end.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

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#5

“If I didn’t think, I’d be much happier.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

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#6

“The silence between us was so profound I thought part of it must be my fault.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

tags: silence

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#7

“I wanted to do everything once and for all and be through with it.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

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#8

“You were doing fine," a familiar voice informed my ear, "until that man stepped into your path.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

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#9

“If I was going to fall, I would hang on to my small comforts, at least, for as long as I possibly could.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

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#10

“He just wanted to see what a girl who was crazy enough to kill herself looked like.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

tags: hospital, suicide

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#11

“To the person in The Bell Jar, black and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself
is a bad dream”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

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#12

“I wondered what terrible thing it was that I had done.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

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#13

“I’m not afraid of being lost. We all wander off from time to time. It’s the fear of never quite finding myself that keeps me up at night.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

tags: fear

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#14

“If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

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#15

“The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

tags: depression-silence

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#16

“I didn't know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of the throat and I'd cry for a week.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

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#17

“I couldn’t see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

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#18

“The floor seemed wonderfully solid. It was comforting to know I had fallen and could fall no farther.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

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#19

“If you love her," I said, "you'll love somebody else someday.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

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#20

“The trouble about jumping was that if you didn't pick the right number of storeys, you might still be alive when you hit bottom.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

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#21

“I wanted to be where nobody I knew could ever come.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

tags: sylvia-plath, the-bell-jar

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#22

“The thought that I might kill myself formed in my mind coolly as a tree or a flower.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

tags: bell-jar, death, suicide, sylvia-plath, thought

584 likes

#23

“I wanted to tell her that if only something were wrong with my body it would be fine, I would rather have anything wrong with my body than something wrong with my head, but the idea seemed so involved and wearisome that I didn’t say anything. I only burrowed down further in the bed.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

tags: mental-illness

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#24

“I buried my head under the darkness of the pillow and pretended it was night. I couldn't see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

tags: darkness, look-forward, night, pillow, pretend, sleep, sylvia-plath, the-bell-jar

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#25

“Everything people did seemed so silly, because they only died in the end.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

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#26

“I saw the years of my life spaced along a road in the form of telephone poles threaded together by wires. I counted one, two, three... nineteen telephone poles, and then the wires dangled into space, and try as I would, I couldn't see a single pole beyond the nineteenth.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

tags: death, life, nineteen, road, years

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#27

“It was comforting to know I had fallen and could fall no farther.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

tags: fall, fallen, plath, sylvia, the-bella-jar

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#28

“Maturity, the way I understand it, is knowing what your limitations are.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

tags: cat-s-cradle, kurt-vonnegut, maturity

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#29

“Sometimes I think that's the trouble with the world: too many people in high places who are stone-cold dead.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

tags: social-commentary

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#30

“In this world, you get what you pay for.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

tags: cat, cat-s, cradle, kurt, vonnegut

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