May Sarton Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old May Sarton quotes, May Sarton sayings, and May Sarton proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

A house that does not have one worn, comfy chair in it is soulless. May Sarton
Though friendship is not quick to burn, it is explosive stuff. May Sarton
We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be. May Sarton
One does not 'find oneself' by pursuing one's self, but on the contrary by pursuing something else and learning through discipline or routine... who one is and wants to be. May Sarton
Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. May Sarton
No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable. May Sarton
Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace. May Sarton
Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. May Sarton
It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it! May Sarton
No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable. May Sarton
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self. May Sarton
Love opens the doors into everything, as far as I can see, including and perhaps most of all, the door into one's own secret, and often terrible and frightening, real self. May Sarton
No partner in a love relationship should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable. May Sarton
Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything — except itself. May Sarton
We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be. May Sarton
We are all jellyfish, too pitiful and too afraid of being disliked to be honest. May Sarton
We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be. May Sarton
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self. May Sarton
It is sometimes the most fragile things that have the power to endure and become sources of strength. May Sarton
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self. May Sarton
One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being. May Sarton
We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be. May Sarton
For any writer who wants to keep a jounal, be alive to everything, not just to what you're feeling, but also to your pets to flowers, to what you're reading. May Sarton
Revision is not going back and fussing around, but going forward into the process of creation May Sarton
Old age is not an illness, it is a timeless ascent. As power diminishes, we grow toward the light. May Sarton
If we are to understand the human condition, and if we are to accept ourselves in all the complexity, self-doubt, extravagance of feeling, guilt, joy, the slow freeing of the self to its full capacity for action and creation, both as human being and as artist, we have to know all we can about each other, and we have to be willing to go naked. May Sarton
One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being. May Sarton
I simply adore being alone - I find it a consuming thirst - and when that thirst is slaked, then I am happy. May Sarton
Though friendship is not quick to burn, it is explosive stuff.  May Sarton
In the garden the door is always open into the "holy" - growth, birth, death. Every flower holds the whole mystery in its short cycle, and in the garden we are never far away from death, the fertilizing, good, creative death. May Sarton