“I waited, as if the sea could make my decision for me.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“I wanted to be where nobody I knew could ever come.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“Not easy to state the change you made.
If I'm alive now, I was dead,
Though, like a stone, unbothered by it.”
― The Collected Poems
If I'm alive now, I was dead,
Though, like a stone, unbothered by it.”
― The Collected Poems
“My world falls apart, crumbles, “The centre cannot hold.” There is no integrating force, only the naked fear, the urge of self-preservation. I am afraid. I am not solid, but hollow. I feel behind my eyes a numb, paralysed cavern, a pit of hell, a mimicking nothingness. I never thought. I never wrote, I never suffered. I want to kill myself, to escape from responsibility, to crawl back abjectly into the womb. I do not know who I am, where I am going—and I am the one who has to decide the answers to these hideous questions. I long for a noble escape from freedom—I am weak, tired, in revolt from the strong constructive humanitarian faith which presupposes a healthy, active intellect and will. There is nowhere to go.”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“The thought that I might kill myself formed in my mind coolly as a tree or a flower.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
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