Sylvia Plath Quotes

You're like the girl who left her shadow in the drawer, but when she went to get it, it wasn't there.

I want them to forget me.

She felt a little nervous about this; 'for it might end, you know,' said Alice to herself, 'in my going out altogether, like a candle. I wonder what I should be like then?' And she tried to fancy what the flame of a candle looks like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember ever having seen such a thing.

I'm going to disappear again.

I feel I'm anonymous in my work. When I look at the pictures, I never see myself; they aren't self-portraits. Sometimes I disappear.

When I disappear, I will disappear; there'll be nothing left.

… where they will vanish in the night and fog.

It's an unknown, it's a disappeared. It has no identity, it's neither alive nor dead...it's disappeared

O soul, be changed into little waterdrops, / And fall into the ocean, ne'er be found!

All these years I kept my true nature hidden, running along like a small shadow so nobody could catch me. -Ying Ying

...they watched the humans disappear. They watched them dissolve, like moving tablets in the humid air.

You already barely exist. Disappearing entirely won't be that much of a change.

That is what Alex is now: a shadow-boy

Infinity is a fathomless gulf, into which all things vanish.

No, no, I am but shadow of myself: You are deceived, my substance is not here.

You may not believe in magic but something very strange is happening at this very moment. Your head has dissolved into thin air and I can see the rhododendrons through your stomach. It's not that you are dead or anything dramatic like that, it is simply that you are fading away and I can't even remember your name.

Very soon he will vanish completely in the wings of his own wordless stanza. [ ] but his stanza is not completely empty [ * ]

To vanish in the chinks that Time has made.

I had become so quiet and so small in the grass by the pond that I was barely noticeable, hardly there... I sat there watching their living room shining out of the dark beside the pond. It looked like a fairy tale functioning happily in the post-World War II gothic of America before television crippled the imagination of America and turned people indoors and away from living out their own fantasies with dignity... Anyway, I just kept getting smaller and smaller beside the pond, more and more unnoticed in the darkening summer grass until I disappeared into the 32 years that have passed since then.

Far more frightening than the thought of dying was the experience of erasure already occurring in my life. My fear of becoming someone who did not count.

Things can be seen better in the darkness," he said, as if he had just seen into her mind. "But the longer you spend in the dark, the harder it becomes to return to the world aboveground where the light is

You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.

Compromise yourself. Obscure your own trail.

Once upon a time there was a dwarf knight who only had fifty words to live in and they were so fleeting that he only had time to put on a suit of armor and ride swiftly on a black horse into a very well-lit woods where he vanished forever.