Sylvia Plath Quote

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


Draft of letter to Richard Sassoon (December 1955), quoted in Joyce Carol Oates, "Raising Lady Lazarus," The New York Times (2000-11-05) - The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (2000)

Raising Lady Lazarus


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

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

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

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