“I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.”—Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals
“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones, and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”—Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals
“God, but life is loneliness, despite all the opiates, despite the shrill tinsel gaiety of “parties” with no purpose, despite the false grinning faces we all wear.”—Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals