Sylvia Plath Quotes

Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life.

There is something great and terrible about suicide.

That's the thing about suicide. Try as you might to remember how a person lived his life, you always end up thinking about how he ended it.

Suicide doesn't solve your problems. It only makes them infinitely, un-countably worse.

For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life.

Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.

Suicide is not an answer, it's destruction.

The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.

Do I want to die from the inside out or the outside in?

Take me away from all this Death.

When attempted self-destruction does not cure a man of life, it cures him of voluntary death.

Everyone has good cause for suicide, or at least it seems that way to those who search for it. (74)

Here is The Boy with the Thorn in His Side, dying in your world. A man made monster with every human emotion, overdosed on worthlessness in a world that could never wrap it’s head around him (so don’t even try). When it’s all over just remember every single word you ever said was always just a bullet to his head. Bury him underground between friends and love - the only things that are gonna make it to the end with him. Look for his body buried beneath where the yellow weeds are growing and know he’s still living in his nightmares.

Guns aren't lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful. So you might as well live.

...we ask: Why suicide? We search for reasons, causes, and so on.... We follow the course of the life he has now so suddenly terminated as far back as we can. For days we are preoccupied with the question: Why suicide? We recollect details. And yet we must say that everything in the suicide's life- for now we know that all his life he was a suicide, led a suicide's existence- is part of the cause, the reason, for his suicide.

Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God's best gift to man.

Lucas went even paler. “Then you’re on the track to suicide,” he whispered. “Take my advice, Valentine. Run. Run as fast as you can, for as long as you can. Steal whatever bit of life you can. You’re already dead.

Kaye: You know what the sun looks like? Janet: No, What? Kaye: Like he slit his wrists in a bathtub and the blood is all over the water. Janet: That's gross, Kaye. Kaye: And the moon is just watching. She's just watching him die. She must have driven him to it.

Tyler lies back and asks, "If Marilyn Monroe were alive right now, what would she be doing?" I say, goodnight. The headliner hangs down in shreds from the ceiling and Tyler says, "Clawing at the lid of her coffin.

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.

Truth is a pain which will not stop. And the truth of this world is to die. You must choose: either dying or lying. Personally, I have never been able to kill myself.

A lot of people want to die for a lot of reasons.

When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.