42 Haunting Passages From The Journals Of Sylvia Plath To Read When Your Soul Is Adrift

42 quotes

From a woman who understood all too well what it means to be human.

“When at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter— they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long.”

— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Relationships, Soul Mates

“How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I need someone to pour myself into.”

— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Intimacy, Relationships, Souls, Soul Mate

“God, I want to talk to everybody I can as deeply as I can.”

— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com

Tagged: talking, Discussion, Deep Conversations, Conversations

“What is my life for and what am I going to do with it? I don’t know and I’m afraid. I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want.”

— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com

Tagged: Life, Opportunity, ENFP, INFP, Identity

“Although the rain is neutral, although the rain is impersonal, it becomes for me a haunting and nostalgic sound.”

— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com

Tagged: Rain, Melancholy, Nostalgia, Rainy Day

“Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.”

— Sylvia Plath, books.google.com

Tagged: Life

“I am aware, sure, I am aware. Catastrophically aware.”

— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com

Tagged: Awareness, Catastrophy

“Suddenly I wonder, ‘Where is the girl that I was last year? Two years go? What would she think of me now?’”

— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com

Tagged: Change, Personality, Growing, Losing Yourself, lost

“What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.”

— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com

Tagged: insignificance, INFP, Fading Out, Growing, Middle Age

“I dream too much, work too little.”

— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com

Tagged: Dream, Dreamer, Idealism, Work, INFP

“I am still so naïve; I know pretty much what I like and dislike; but please, don’t ask me who I am. A passionate, fragmentary girl, maybe?”

— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com

Tagged: Naivety, Identity, Personality, Growing Up, lost

“I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.”

— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com

Tagged: Desire, Self-Destruction, Addiction