…* to learn that money makes life smooth in some ways, and to feel how…

Sylvia Plath
472 citations
…* to learn that money makes life smooth in some ways, and to feel how tight and threadbare life is if you have too little. * to despise money, which is a farce, mere paper, and to hate what you have to do for it, and yet to long to have it in order to be free from slaving for it. * to yearn toward art, music, ballet and good books, and get them only in tantalizing snatches.
Life Reading
29

More Author Quotes

Beached under the spumy blooms, we lie Sea-sick and fever-dry. ✨ Sylvia Plath (2015). Collected Poems, p.135, Faber & Faber
Now I am silent, hate Up to my neck, Thick, thick. I do not speak. ✨ Sylvia Plath (2017). Winter Trees, p.26, Faber & Faber
To annihilate the world by annihilation of oneself is the deluded height of desperate egoism. ✨ Sylvia Plath (2011). The Journals of Sylvia Plath, p.163, Faber & Faber
A psychiatrist is the god of our age. But they cost money. ✨ Sylvia Plath (2013). The Journals of Sylvia Plath, p.62, Anchor
Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences. ✨ Sylvia Plath (2007). The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, p.184, Anchor

More Author Quotes

Most Cited Authors

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

Curated Author Quotes