May Sarton Quotes
"Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers."
- May Sarton
(Related: Darkness, Flowers, Help, Light, Nothing, Spirit)
"Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be."
- May Sarton
(Related: Women, First, Wives)
"We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be."
- May Sarton
(Related: May, Self)
"True feeling justifies whatever it may cost."
- May Sarton
(Related: Feeling, May)
"The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become."
- May Sarton
(Related: Words)
"The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters."
- May Sarton
(Related: Change, Growth, Disasters, Garden, Loss)
"Self-respect is nothing to hide behind. When you need it most it isn't there."
- May Sarton
(Related: Nothing, Self)
"It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!"
- May Sarton
(Related: Love, Fear, Murder, Privilege)
"There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most."
- May Sarton
(Related: Gifts)
"In the country of pain we are each alone."
- May Sarton
(Related: Country, Pain)
"One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being."
- May Sarton
(Related: Being)
"Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self."
- May Sarton
(Related: Loneliness, Poverty, Richness, Self, Solitude)
"May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best - out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant; that is what matters."
- May Sarton
(Related: Life, Fashion, May)
"Most people have to talk so they won't hear."
- May Sarton
(Related: People, Talk)
"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
(Related: Love)
"In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place."
- May Sarton
(Related: Work)
"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
(Related: Gardening, Nature, Grace, Help, Patience)
"A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless."
- May Sarton
"Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the temperament, the will of a baby a few months old!"
- May Sarton
(Related: Genius, Baby, Forget, Months, Temperament, Will)
"Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness."
- May Sarton
(Related: Discipline, Creation, Day, Foolishness, Living, Order, Play)