Sylvia Plath Quotes

One advantage of talking to yourself is that you know at least somebody's listening.

I kept staring into the blackness of the woods, drawn into the darkness as I always had been. I suddenly realized how alone I was. (But this is how you travel, the wind whispered back, this is how you've always lived.)

Staying within the world of a novel gives us the ability to be quiet and alone, two skills that are disappearing faster than the polar icecaps.

No, I won't try to escape myself by losing myself in artificial chatter 'Did you have a nice vacation?' 'Oh, yes, and you?' I'll stay here and try to pin that loneliness down.

I am entirely alone. I and my shadow fill the universe.

I have only one friend, and that is echo. Why is it my friend? Because I love my sorrow, and echo does not take it away from me. I have only one confidant, and that is the silence of night. Why is it my confidant? Because it remains silent.

With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.

It's only when you're alone that you realize where you are. You have nothing to fall back on except your own resources.

I need, absolutely, to be alone.

A great reader seldom recognizes his solitude.

There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

If you travel too often, you actually come face-to-face with what you're trying to escape. I feel like when I travel alone, sometimes it's like being locked in a hotel room with my own worst enemy.

I guess I'm attracted and repelled by isolation. It scares me. And it's why I tend to write about older characters, too, because for them the stakes are somewhat higher.

For me, books have always been a way to feel less alone while being alone. Perhaps if I was depressed and isolated, just communicating with these authors through their sentences helped me.

I have a huge, active imagination, and I think I'm really scared of being alone; because if I'm left to my own devices, I'll just turn into a madwoman.

The task of the solitary man is to be even more solitary.

There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while.

One of the things reading does, it makes your loneliness manageable if you are an essentially lonely person.

I live alone, so I don't really talk to anyone once I'm home. I have some silent nights.

I think the biggest problem working with me would be that I'm an only child, and so I have an internal dialogue that goes on that I just assume you can hear.

Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book.

The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

That was one of the reasons I became a writer - I never really had that many friends. I would read a lot, and listen to music. And that was my life.

I've always kind of lived in my own world.

There's definitely a loneliness and, like, an internal element to being a performer.