All May Sarton Quotes
- The price of being oneself is so high and involves so much ruthlessness toward others (or what looks like ruthlessness in our duty-bound culture) that… Afford
- It is possible, I suppose, that we are returning to a Dark Age. What is frightening is that violence is not only represented by nations,… Age
- Family life! The United Nations is child's play compared to the tugs and splits and need to understand and forgive in any family. Any
- I've been thinking about happiness-how wrong it is ever to expect it to last or there to be a time of happiness. It's not that,… Almost Every
- Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness? Cannot Show
- For art is order, but it is born out of the chaos of life. Art
- Joy, happiness ... we do not question. They are beyond question, maybe. A matter of being. But pain forces us to think, and to make… Been
- There is a wilder solitude in winter When every sense is pricked alive and keen. Alive
- If art is not to be life-enhancing, what is it to be? Art
- One must believe that private dilemmas are, if deeply examined, universal, and so, if expressed, have a human value beyond the private, and one must… Belief
- I want feelings to be expressed, to be open, to be natural, not to be looked on as strange. It's not weird if you feel… Deeply
- Am I too old, perhaps, ever to take in another's life to share with mine on a permanent basis? If so, I must make do… Ardent
- I would predicate that in all great works of genius masculine and feminine elements in the personality find expression, whether this androgynous nature is played… All
- It looks as if I were meant to be alone, and that any hope of happiness is not meant. Am I too old to acquire… Acquire
- 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,… Accept
- You can't plan for a seizure of feeling, and for this reason I put everything else aside when I'm inspired. Aside
- Real joy is becoming exceedingly rare among artists of any kind. And I have an idea that those who can and do communicate it are… Always People
- We can do anything, or almost, but how balanced, magnanimous, and modest one has to be to do anything! And also how patient. It is… Anywhere
- Why should it happen that among the great many women whom I see and am fond of, suddenly somebody I meet for half an hour… Among
- The value of solitude - one of its values - is, of course, that there is nothing to cushion against attacks from within, just as… Attacks