Sylvia Plath Quotes

The people I used to be surrounded by are getting along without me. Somehow, that really bugs me.

There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room. It's like watching Paris from an express caboose heading in the opposite direction--every second the city gets smaller and smaller, only you feel it's really you getting smaller and smaller and lonelier and lonelier, rushing away from all those lights and excitement at about a million miles an hour.

This is the thing they don't tell you about being a third wheel - it's not like you're the wheel that's added on. You were one of the original two wheels, but suddenly you're not so important anymore. The relationship drives fine without you.

It is dreadful the way all the comfortable, happy people stay off to themselves.

It's lonely to listen to the pleasure of others, not that I've made a habit of that kind of eavesdropping. There's joy and passion in the next room, in the next bed, but it's not yours.

It wasn't that I got pinned against my locker, but I was intensely aware that the things I valued weren't shared by anyone. Girls didn't like me, and I had few friends.

I missed out on everything. Sometimes on the street I see teenagers hanging out and going to the movies, going to concerts, and I get so jealous.

I've actually never been taken on a date in my whole life.

I felt little awkward about taking one boyfriend to see a film starring another boyfriend.

I didn't even go to my prom. I didn't have one date in high school.

This is going to sound really sad, but I didn't really have any heartthrobs when I was growing up. I was a bit of a geek.

I was the kid who was too geeky for the other kids.

I've always been on the outside looking in. I was never popular in school, despite my success in athletics. I would win track and field competitions, but I wouldn't go to parties. I'd be alone.

I don't understand how people can stand next to you one year,and next year, they cannot. They're going crazy, screaming. They can't take it that you're there. But last year I was in the same club,walking around,lonely like a motherfucker. Couldn't get a date or a dance. I was too skinny, too something, and now, "He's just adorable. He's just, oh!

I felt the kind of loneliness that can happen in a roomful of people when everyone but you seems to be in on the good time.

I could not take lightly the idea that people made love without me.

To live without feeling or exciting sympathy, to be fortunate without adding to the felicity of others, or afflicted without tasting the balm of pity, is a state more gloomy than solitude; it is not retreat, but exclusion from mankind. Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.

I was too shy to be around real people. It wasn't like old ladies talking to plants.

You always feel like you are the only one in the world, like everyone else is crazy for each other, but it's not true. Generally, people don't like each other very much. And that goes for friends, too.

Cause I was stayin home when they was having fun. So please don't be surprised when they announce that I won.

If you're not popular, then everyone is not wanting anything to do with you, or not answering the phone.

I was the girl who didn’t get invited to parties.

I started to do everything I could to succeed, but found that the more successful I became, the less people liked me.

Besides, the normal people here wouldn’t see it. That was what “different” meant. It’s just another word for lonely.

The worst thing someone gets is isolated. Isolation is the darkest part of any condition. You can live with almost any condition if you're living within a community of people who can share a common understanding. We create these communities from women who share common conditions, and those mothers carry each other through.