Sylvia Plath Quotes

Sometimes I think I'm the craziest person on the planet.

I have no idea where my pathetic nature comes from. If I thought about it too long, it would depress me.

I don't understand my own sporadic collapses into passivity. Perhaps I never will.

I knew from a very young age that there was something very wrong with me.

The third person allows characters to really attack themselves. We all do this - attack ourselves - every hour of our lives.

Sometimes I get so depressed 'Bout what I haven't done. -NEVER

I had an epiphany: I was a loser.

But now my problems had been set loose. They could be anywhere at any time and I was just like everyone else I knew: almost positive that there was something profoundly and undiagnosably wrong with me.

I didn't tell him that what I was most scared of, most haunted by, was something I didn't understand and could never run away from. It was myself.

i'm going mad, i told myself. let me not be mad.

Something really is wrong with me. And I don't know what it is.

You go through spells where you feel that maybe you're too sensitive for this world. I certainly felt that.

Anybody can get lost in themselves.

Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.

Most of the time I feel stupid, insensitive, mediocre, talentless and vulnerable - like I'm about to cry any second - and wrong. I've found that when that happens, it usually means I'm writing pretty well, pretty deeply, pretty rawly.

There are some days when you don't feel like being Alan Cumming.

You get tangled up in your own ego of how you're perceived. You can lose your way.

My songs are about not knowing who to be and not knowing how to act.

I just look around and say, I'm a mess. I don't know why I do things.

For me, growing up, I felt like there was something fatally and tragically flawed in my nature and that it was my duty to try to avoid falling for that vice.

No matter how I look, the freak inside me leaks out.

I hated myself for so many reasons, and I thought so many things were my fault that happened to me growing up.

For a long time, I would go out of my way to have a personal appearance on the verge of an insane person, because it was closer to how I felt, but I looked so dumb. So, I just stopped. It was like, 'I'm just going to look like a banker.'

I'm sure I'm a schizophrenic. The problem is I can't tell the difference between which one's which, which one is the real me.

'Different' is such a good word. For me, ever since I was little, I always felt that something was off. And I just didn't have the resources to - I just didn't know what it was.