The Bell Jar Quotes

She looked terrible, but very wise.

I couldn't stand the idea of a woman having to have a single pure life and a man being able to have a double life, one pure and one not.

I need more than anything right now what is, of course, most impossible, someone to love me, to be with me at night when I wake up in shuddering horror and fear of the cement tunnels leading down to the shock room, to comfort me with an assurance that no psychiatrist can quite manage to convey.

Not easy to state the change you made.If I'm alive now, I was dead,Though, like a stone, unbothered by it.

My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.

Sylvia Plath is there for me when actual living people upon who I have depended upon my whole life, are not. What I mean to say is, without her words, I'd be exponentially more messed up than I am already.

When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn't know.

Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.