A Journal of the Journals of Sylvia Plath

Oct 27

“Life is so only-once, so single-chancish! It all depends on your arranging and synchronising it so that when opportunity knocks you’re right there waiting with your hand on the doorknob.” Sylvia Plath (Happy birthday)

Nov 14

“Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything it is because we are dangerously near to wanting nothing.” Sylvia Plath

Oct 26

“A psychiatrist is the God of our age. But they cost money.” Sylvia Plath

Sep 21

“It goes by, and whatever dream you use to dope up the pains and the hurts, it goes. Delude yourself about printed islands of permanence. You’ve only got so long to live. You’re getting your dream. Things are working, blind forces, no personal spiritual beneficent ones except your own intelligence and the good will of a few other fools and fellow humans. So hit it while it’s hot.” Sylvia Plath

Sep 2

“The ways to hell on earth are easy, and one can always cross out hell and scribble in heaven. So much sweeter that way.” Sylvia Plath

Aug 24

“And just for the record, consider all the potential “friends” we slaughter off in war, just because they are arbitrarily labeled “enemy.” Sylvia Plath

Aug 19

“We know a thing by its opposite corollary: hot by having experienced cold; good by having decided what is bad; love by hate.” Sylvia Plath

Aug 18

“August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.” Sylvia Plath

Aug 11

“You God, whom I invoke without belief, only I can choose, and only I am responsible. (Oh, the grimness of atheism!)” Sylvia Plath

Aug 10

“Why can’t I try on different lives, like dresses, to see which fits best and is most becoming?” Sylvia Plath