Best Bell Jar Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“è come sollevara una campana di vetro posta sopra una comunità dove tutto funziona come un meccanismo oliato, e vedere i minuscoli, indaffarati abitanti arrestarsi di colpo, boccheggiare, gonfiarsi e librarsi nell'aflusso ( anzi, nel deflusso) della rarefatta atmosfera della norma: poveri esserini spaventati che agitano le braccia impotenti nell'aria indecisa. è così che ci sente a liberarsi dalla routine.”

Sadness Depression Bell Jar Break The Habit

Book:The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“I knew what was about to happen. I knew I was going to cry. It’s not even about sadness—it’s about vulnerability. Seeing into a person’s soul, even for a moment, is just too much. It’s like the convex meniscus Sylvia Plath describes in The Bell Jar—the water that clings to the sides of the glass before one tiny pulse causes it to overflow.”

Self Discovery Bell Jar Plath

Book:Burning Sage

Source: Burning Sage

“Ready for a new life”

Life Ready New Life Bell Jar New Leaf

Book:the bell jar

Source: the bell jar

“Facevo collezione di uomini con nomi interessanti.”

Bell Jar Uomini Collezione Nomi

Book:La campana di vetro

Source: La campana di vetro

“The key problem is to find out why that sector of society of the past, which I would not hesitate to call capitalist, should have lived as if in a bell jar, cut off from the rest; why was it not able to expand and conquer the whole of society?... [Why was it that] a significant rate of capital formation was possible only in certain sectors and not in the whole market economy of the time?”

Source: Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century: The wheels of commerce

“Someone once said that under the bell jar of compliance, the only thing that blooms is rage.”

Said Rage Conformity Bells Jars Compliance Bell Jar

Book:My Life So Far

Source: My Life So Far

“My garden is the most beautiful thing in the world.”

World Beautiful Garden Impression Clarity Beautiful Things First Impression Ballparks Bell Jar Infantry Cast Away Over The Hill

Author:Josephine de Beauharnais

“Religion is a bell jar; you cannot find God in that jar, because it is your bell jar, you have created it! Break the glass prison and get fresh air, elevate your intelligence! Wake up and open your eyes; see the truth beyond your prison! If you can't break the glass, don't worry; science will do it for you!”

Ifs Eye Science Break Worry Air Truth Is Wake Up Prison Glasses Bells Jars Fresh Air Bell Jar

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“All cultures have things to learn from all other cultures. Don't get stuck in your culture! Go beyond it! Get out of your aquarium; get out of your farm; get out of your castle; break your bell jar! Give chance to other cultures and to other opinions! This is the best way for you to see the insufficiencies, absurdities and stupidities in your culture!”

Way Giving Culture Chance Opinion Break Stupidity Stuck Best Way Farms Bells Absurdity Castles Jars Other Cultures Aquariums Bell Jar Insufficiency Others Opinions

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“An unfree mind is just like a windmill inside the bell jar!”

Mind Bells Jars Bell Jar Windmills Unfree

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“I didn't know what I was doing in New York.”

Knows New York Moron Hopkins Antisocial Bell Jar Junior Year College Days I Know The Truth

Author:Sylvia Plath

“I kind of don't believe in actors directing themselves. Obviously some people have done it well, but I don't see how I could. It's funny that you ask, because I've just been thinking that maybe I'd rather direct The Bell Jar than act in it. It's a huge leap to go from a short to a feature, so I'm tentative - I'm like, Well, that's just so triple-type-A personality of you.”

People Thinking Believe Wells Kind Done Actors Asks Huge Type Personality Direct Don't Believe Features Leap Bells Jars Bell Jar

Author:Julia Stiles

“There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.”

Source: the bell jar

“I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.”

Life Inspirational Heart Inspiring My Heart Breaths Chaos Positivity Being Yourself Encouraging Deep Breath Take A Deep Breath Bell Jar Deep Listening Deep Breathing

Author:Sylvia Plath

“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.”

World Eye Born Perspective Spring Chaos Lifts Born Again Bell Jar Through My Eyes These Eyes

Book:the bell jar

Source: the bell jar

“The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.”

My Own Silence Feminism Depression Classic Being A Woman Bell Jar

Book:the bell jar

Source: the bell jar

“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.”

Men Minutes Building Mets Glamorous Building Up Bell Jar

Book:the bell jar

Source: the bell jar

“The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn't thought about it.”

Trouble Inadequate Bell Jar

Book:the bell jar

Source: the bell jar

“I was supposed to be having the time of my life.”

Supposed To Be Time Of My Life Bell Jar

Book:the bell jar

Source: the bell jar

“To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.”

World Persons Dream Baby Bells Blank Forgetfulness Jars Baby Boy Bad Dream Bell Jar Thermometers Cadavers Insulin Dead Baby

Author:Sylvia Plath

“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.”

Source: The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde

“That’s one of the reasons I never wanted to get married. The last thing I wanted was infinite security and to be the place an arrow shoots off from. I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.”

Reason Wanted Lasts Security Married Infinite Excitement Fourth Arrows Rockets July Bell Jar

Book:the bell jar

Source: the bell jar

“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.”

Way Should Made Whole Depression Tired Bell Jar

Book:the bell jar

Source: the bell jar

“Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.”

Writing Wells Feminism Let Me Sentences Classic Being A Woman Bell Jar Live Love

Book:The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“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.”

Would Be My Own Air Streets Depression Sitting Glasses Ships Paris Sat Bells Jars Sour Deck Being Sad Bell Jar Bangkok

Book:the bell jar

Source: the bell jar

“I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow, the million moving shapes and cul-de-sacs of shadow. There was shadow in bureau drawers and closets and suitcases, and shadow under houses and trees and stones, and shadow at the back of people's eyes and smiles, and shadow, miles and miles and miles of it, on the night side of the earth.”

People World Eye Earth Beautiful Moving Night House Sides Millions Tree Shapes Depression Shadow Stones Miles Beautiful Things Closets Drawers Suitcases Bell Jar

Book:the bell jar

Source: the bell jar

“The moment in The Bell Jar when Esther Greenwood realizes after thirty days in the same black turtleneck that she never wants to wash her hair again, that the repeated necessity of the act is too much trouble, that she wants to do it once and be done with it, seems like the book's true epiphany. You know you've completely descended into madness when the matter of shampoo has ascended into philosophical heights.”

“There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.”

Friendship Inspiring Feminism Friends Classic Real Friends Old Friends Being A Woman One Line Friendship Best Friendship Bell Jar Funny Best Friend Old Friendship

Book:the bell jar

Source: the bell jar

“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.”

Thinking Children States Married Slave Numb Brainwashed Bell Jar Totalitarian State

Book:the bell jar

Source: the bell jar

“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.”

Mind Felt Space Empty Dumb Empty Space Skater Bell Jar

Book:the bell jar

Source: the bell jar

“I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.”

“If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.”

Ifs Feminism Expectations Classic Disappointed Being A Woman Expect Nothing Bell Jar Never Expect

Author: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.”

Felt Air Feet Heat Bells Hung Jars Suspended Bell Jar

Book:the bell jar

Source: the bell jar

“The only thing I could think of was turkey neck and turkey gizzards and I felt very depressed.”

Thinking Felt Necks Turkeys Bell Jar Very Depressed

Book:the bell jar

Source: the bell jar

“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.”

Way Feels Stills Eye Moving Felt Feminism Middle Empty Chaos Classic Emptiness Being A Woman Numbness Tornadoes Bell Jar

Book:the bell jar

Source: the bell jar

“But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and defensless that I couldn't do it. It was as if what I wanted to kill wasn't in that skin or the thin blue pulse that jumped under my thumb, but somewhere else, deeper, more secret, and a whole lot harder to get.”

Ifs Whole Truth Wanted White Secret Skins Harder Blue Deeper Somewhere Else Pulse Relatable Thumbs Wrists Bell Jar

Book:the bell jar

Source: the bell jar

“The silence drew off, baring the pebbles and shells and all the tatty wreckage of my life.”

Silence Shells Pebbles Wreckage Bell Jar

Book:the bell jar

Source: the bell jar

“I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.”

Wanted Change Excitement Fourth Arrows Rockets July Bell Jar

Book:the bell jar

Source: the bell jar

“I didn’t want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn’t know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of my throat and I’d cry for a week. I could feel the tears brimming and sloshing in me like water in a glass that is unsteady and too full.”

Ifs Knows Want Feels Eye Water Taken Week Cry Tears Depression Glasses Spokes Throat Bell Jar Picture Taken

Book:the bell jar

Source: the bell jar

“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.”

Men Saws Sight Moved Distance Flawless Bell Jar

Book:the bell jar

Source: the bell jar

“I couldn’t see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to.”

Looks Bell Jar

Book:the bell jar

Source: the bell jar

“It was like the first time i saw a cadaver. For weeks afterward the cadavers head, or what was left of it - floated up behind my eggs and bacon at breakfast and in the face of Buddy Willard, who was responsible for my seeing it in the first place, and pretty soon I felt as though I were carrying that cadavers head around with me on a string, like some black, noseless balloon stinking of vinegar.”

Firsts Faces Left Felt Black Behinds Saws Seeing Week First Time Responsible Eggs Strings Breakfast Buddy Balloons Vinegar Bell Jar Cadavers

Author: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.”

Men Bigs Names Interesting Son Intellectual Hollywood Catholic Ugly Producers Greek Tall Ruined Bell Jar

Book:the bell jar

Source: the bell jar

“I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow.”

World Beautiful Shadow Beautiful Things Bell Jar

Book:the bell jar

Source: the bell jar

“There was a beautiful time.”

Beautiful Bell Jar

Book:the bell jar

Source: the bell jar

“Maybe forgetfulness, like a kind snow, should numb and cover them. But they were a part of me. They were my landscape.”

Should Kind Snow Landscape Numb Forgetfulness Bell Jar Thermometers Cadavers Insulin

Book:the bell jar

Source: the bell jar

“There ought, I thought, to be a ritual for being born twice - patched, retreaded and approved for the road.”

Born Ought Ritual Approved Bell Jar

Book:the bell jar

Source: the bell jar

“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.”

Ifs Children Made Hands Bigs Lying Left Lines Paper Pages Letters Strings Pens Loops Bell Jar

Author: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.”

Eye Air Rounds Seats Gray Bells Jars Bell Jar

Book:the bell jar

Source: the bell jar

“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.”

Thinking Soul Would Be Sea Shoes Sand Silver Pointing Compass Leather Patents Bell Jar Leather Shoes

Book:the bell jar

Source: the bell jar

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