All May Sarton Quotes
- People who are always thinking of the feelings of others can be very destructive because they are hiding so much from themselves. Always Thinking
- Time unbounded is hard to handle. Handle
- We are all, whether we know it or not, in search of a way to enrich, to drink during the fizz, to inhale deeper our… All
- I suppose I envy painters because they can meditate on form and structure, on color and light, and not concern themselves with human torment and… Chaos
- We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be. Authenticity
- 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… Circles
- Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self. Alone
- No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable. Essential
- One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being. Behave
- A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless. Chair
- The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters. Change
- The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become. Articulate
- True feeling justifies whatever it may cost. Cost
- May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best - out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the… Absolute
- Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite. Education
- I feel like an inadequate machine, a machine that breaks down at crucial moments, grinds to a dreadful hault, 'won't go,' or, even worse, explodes… Break
- Routine is not a prison, but the way to freedom from time. Freedom
- Where music thundered let the mind be still, Where the will triumphed let there be no will, What light revealed, now let the dark fulfill. Dark
- Does anything in nature despair except man? An animal with a foot caught in a trap does not seem to despair. It is too busy… All
- If art is not to be life-enhancing, what is it to be? Half the world is feminine--why is there resentment at a female-oriented art? Nobody… Afraid