To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream. — Sylvia Plath
An unfree mind is just like a windmill inside the bell jar! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
because wherever I sat—on the deck of a ship or at a street café in Paris or Bangkok—I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air. — Sylvia Plath
The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station. — William Gibson
A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul. — Franz Kafka
What you have in your head, put down on paper. The head is a fragile vessel. — Dmitri Shostakovich
A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it. — Edward P. Morgan
We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam — Carl Sagan
A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe. — Madeleine L'Engle
A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window. — Gilles Deleuze
Wisdom was a teapot, pouring from above. Desolation angels, served it up with love. — Patti Smith
And if your head explodes with dark forebodings too
I'll see you on the dark side of the moon. — Roger Waters
When things get too heavy, just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man. — Jimi Hendrix
A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open. — Frank Zappa
Short Bell Jar Quotes
Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down ? That's not my department. — Tom Lehrer
We live not, in reality, on the summit of a solid earth but at the bottom of an ocean of air — Thales
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously. — Noam Chomsky
A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light. — Franz Kafka
A fighter never knows when it's the last bell. He doesn't want to face that.
The Bell Jar Quotes
If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. — Sylvia Plath
I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy. — Sylvia Plath
I sank back in the gray, plush seat and closed my eyes. The air of the bell jar wadded round me and I couldn't stir. — Sylvia Plath
I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo. — Sylvia Plath
But I wasn't sure. I wasn't sure at all. How did I know that someday―at college, in Europe, somewhere, anywhere―the bell jar, with its stifling distortions, wouldn't descend again? — Sylvia Plath
My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you. — Sylvia Plath
I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow. — Sylvia Plath
Don't let the wicked city get you down. — Sylvia Plath
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. — Sylvia Plath
There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends. — Sylvia Plath
Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences. — Sylvia Plath
I once met an economist who believed that everything was fungible for money, so I suggested he enclose himself in a large bell-jar with as much money as he wanted and see how long he lasted. — Amory Lovins
Someone once said that under the bell jar of compliance, the only thing that blooms is rage. — Jane Fonda
I was supposed to be having the time of my life. — Sylvia Plath
I didn't know what I was doing in New York. — Sylvia Plath
I buried my head under the darkness of the pillow and pretended it was night. I couldn't see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to. — Sylvia Plath
The floor seemed wonderfully solid. It was comforting to know I had fallen and could fall no farther. — Sylvia Plath
I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket. — Sylvia Plath
I wondered why I couldn't go the whole way doing what I should any more. This made me sad and tired. Then I wondered why I couldn't go the whole way doing what I shouldn't, the way Doreen did, and this made me even sadder and more tired. — Sylvia Plath
The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn't thought about it. — Sylvia Plath
But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and defenseless that I couldn't do it. — Sylvia Plath
I dare you to read a book this weekend! War and Peace? To Kill a Mocking Bird? Catcher in the Rye? The Heart is a Lonely Hunter? For Whom the Bell Tolls? As i lay Dying? Giovanni's Room? The Bell Jar? These books changed my life. #artforfreedom #rebelheart — Madonna Ciccone
Is to throw together events from my own life, fictionalizing to add color—it’s a pot boiler really, but I think it will show how isolated a person feels when he is suffering a breakdown . . . I’ve tried to picture my world and the people in it as seen through the distorting lens of a bell jar. — Sylvia Plath
I am made, crudely, for success. — Sylvia Plath
I thought how strange it had never occurred to me before that I was only purely happy until I was nine years old. — Sylvia Plath
When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn't know. — Sylvia Plath
I had removed my patent leather shoes after a while, for they foundered badly in the sand. It pleased me to think they would be perched there on the silver log, pointing out to sea, like a sort of soul-compass, after I was dead. — Sylvia Plath
There ought, I thought, to be a ritual for being born twice - patched, retreaded and approved for the road. — Sylvia Plath
Maybe forgetfulness, like a kind snow, should numb and cover them. But they were a part of me. They were my landscape. — Sylvia Plath
I collected men with interesting names. I already knew a Socrates. He was tall and ugly and intellectual and the son of some big Greek movie producer in Hollywood, but also a Catholic, which ruined it for both of us. — Sylvia Plath
I couldn’t see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to. — Sylvia Plath
The silence drew off, baring the pebbles and shells and all the tatty wreckage of my life. — Sylvia Plath
All the heat and fear had purged itself. I felt surprisingly at peace. The bell jar hung suspended a few feet above my head. I was open to the circulating air. — Sylvia Plath
So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed, and afterward you went about as numb as a slave in a totalitarian state. — Sylvia Plath
The one thing I was good at was winning scholarships and prizes, and that era was coming to an end. — Sylvia Plath
I had decided I would put off the novel until I had gone to Europe and had a lover. — Sylvia Plath
But when I took up my pen, my hand made big, jerky letters like those of a child, and the lines sloped down the page from left to right horizontally, as if they were loops of string lying on the paper, and someone had come along and blown them askew. — Sylvia Plath
I would catch sight of some flawless man off in the distance, but as soon as he moved closer I immediately saw he wouldn’t do at all. — Sylvia Plath
The only thing I could think of was turkey neck and turkey gizzards and I felt very depressed. — Sylvia Plath
I felt dumb and subdued. Every time I tried to concentrate, my mind glided off, like a skater, into a large empty space, and pirouetted there, absently. — Sylvia Plath
There I went again, building up a glamorous picture of a man who would love me passionately the minute he met me, and all out of a few prosy nothings. — Sylvia Plath
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