# The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

- Author: [Sylvia Plath](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sylvia-plath.md)
- Quotes: 13
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/sylvia-plath/the-unabridged-journals-of-sylvia-plath

## Quotes

> I am made, crudely, for success.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sylvia-plath/the-unabridged-journals-of-sylvia-plath/i-am-made.md)

> The abstract kills, the concrete saves.

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> Frustrated? Yes. Why? Because it is impossible for me to be God — or the universal woman-and-man — or anything much. I am what I feel and think and do. I want to express my being as fully as I can because I somewhere picked up the idea that I could justify my being alive that way.

p. 158 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sylvia-plath/the-unabridged-journals-of-sylvia-plath/frustrated-yes-why.md)

> I desire the things which will destroy me in the end.

p. 63 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sylvia-plath/the-unabridged-journals-of-sylvia-plath/i-desire-the.md)

> It is raining. I am tempted to write a poem. But I remember what it said on one rejection slip: After a heavy rainfall, poems titled RAIN pour in from across the nation.

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> Ironically, Henry James' biography comforts me & I long to make known to him his posthumous reputation — he wrote, in pain, gave all his life (which is more than I could think of doing — I have Ted, will have children — but few friends) & the critics insulted & mocked him, readers didn't read him.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sylvia-plath/the-unabridged-journals-of-sylvia-plath/ironically-henry-james.md)

> I talk to God but the sky is empty.

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> The blood of love welled up in my heart with a slow pain.

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> Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously near to wanting nothing.

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> I love people. Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his collection. Every story, every incident, every bit of conversation is raw material for me. My love's not impersonal yet not wholly subjective either. I would like to be everyone, a cripple, a dying man, a whore, and then come back to write about my thoughts, my emotions, as that person. But I am not omniscient. I have to live my life, and it is the only one I'll ever have. And you cannot regard your own life with objective curiosity all the time.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sylvia-plath/the-unabridged-journals-of-sylvia-plath/i-love-people.md)

> I must get back my soul from you; I am killing my flesh without it.

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> If I didn't think, I'd be much happier; if I didn't have any sex organs, I wouldn't waver on the brink of nervous emotion and tears all the time.

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> With me, the present is forever, and forever is always shifting, flowing, melting. This second is life. And when it is gone it is dead. But you can't start over with each new second. You have to judge by what is dead. It's like quicksand... hopeless from the start.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sylvia-plath/the-unabridged-journals-of-sylvia-plath/with-me-the.md)