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title: "4 Destructive Quotes By May Sarton"
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> [People who are always thinking of the feelings of others can be very destructive because they are hiding so much from themselves.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/people-who-are-always-thinking-of-the-feelings-of-others-can-be-very/)

[May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/)

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> [I think that passion if really intense is always destructive if not to the two involved, always to other people.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/i-think-that-passion-if-really-intense-is-always-destructive-if-not/)

[May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/)

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> [What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/what-is-destructive-is-impatience-haste-expecting-too-much-too-fast/)

[May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/)

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> [I have sometimes wondered also whether in people like me who come to the boil fast (soupe au lait, the French call…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/i-have-sometimes-wondered-also-whether-in-people-like-me-who-come-to/)

[May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/)

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## Other authors on Destructive

## More by May Sarton

> [“I felt pain like an assault, The old pain again When the world thrusts itself inside, When we have to take in the outside,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/i-felt-pain-like-an-assault-the-old-pain-again-when-the-world-thrusts/)

[May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/)

> [Most people have to talk so they won't hear.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/most-people-have-to-talk-so-they-won-t-hear/)

[May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/)

> [People who cannot feel punish those who do.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/people-who-cannot-feel-punish-those-who-do/)

[May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/)

> [This suspension of one's own reality, this being entirely alone in a strange city (at times I wondered if I had lost the power…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/this-suspension-of-one-s-own-reality-this-being-entirely-alone-in-a/)

[May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/)

> [One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/one-must-think-like-a-hero-to-behave-like-a-merely-decent-human-being/)

[May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/)

> [Real joy is becoming exceedingly rare among artists of any kind. And I have an idea that those who can and do communicate it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/real-joy-is-becoming-exceedingly-rare-among-artists-of-any-kind-and-i/)

[May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/)

> [For to be desperate is to discover strength. / We die of comfort and by conflict live.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/for-to-be-desperate-is-to-discover-strength-we-die-of-comfort-and-by/)

[May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/)

> [“I see you with that shell Held to your sensitive abstracted ear, Hunting the ocean’s rumor till you hear it well, Until you can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/i-see-you-with-that-shell-held-to-your-sensitive-abstracted-ear/)

[May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/)

> [There is a wilder solitude in winter When every sense is pricked alive and keen.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/there-is-a-wilder-solitude-in-winter-when-every-sense-is-pricked/)

[May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/)

> [I long for the bulbs to arrive, for the early autumn chores are melancholy, but the planting of bulbs is the work of hope…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/i-long-for-the-bulbs-to-arrive-for-the-early-autumn-chores-are/)

[May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/)

> [Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/why-is-it-that-people-who-cannot-show-feeling-presume-that-that-is-a/)

[May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/)

> [Innocence is not pure so much as pleased, Always expectant, bright-eyed, self-enclosed](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/innocence-is-not-pure-so-much-as-pleased-always-expectant-bright-eyed/)

[May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/)

> [I have written every poem, every novel, for the same purpose-to find out what I think, to know where I stand.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/i-have-written-every-poem-every-novel-for-the-same-purpose-to-find/)

[May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/)

> [For art is order, but it is born out of the chaos of life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/for-art-is-order-but-it-is-born-out-of-the-chaos-of-life/)

[May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/)

> [all great people are humble because great people have great work and are humbled by the largeness of their dreams.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/all-great-people-are-humble-because-great-people-have-great-work-and/)

[May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/)

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