May Sarton Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• One of the good elements of old age is that we no longer have to prove anything, to ourselves or to anyone else. We are what we are.

  May Sarton

  Age, Elements, Prove

  May Sarton (2014). “The House by the Sea: A Journal”, p.143, Open Road Media

• One thing is certain, and I have always known it - the joys of my life have nothing to do with age. They do not change. Flowers, the morning and evening light, music, poetry, silence, the goldfinches darting about

  May Sarton

  Morning, Flower, Evening Light

  May Sarton, Edith Royce Schade (1994). “From May Sarton's well: writings of May Sarton”, Papier Mache Pr

• It is, I assume, quite easy to wither into old age, and hard to grow into it.

  May Sarton

  Age, Assuming, Easy

  May Sarton (2014). “The House by the Sea: A Journal”, p.16, Open Road Media

• The trouble is, old age is not interesting until one gets there. It's a foreign country with an unknown language to the young and even to the middle-aged.

  May Sarton

  Country, Interesting, Age

• Old age is not an illness, it is a timeless ascent. As power diminishes, we grow toward the light.

  May Sarton

  Light, Age, Ascent

• I suppose real old age begins when one looks backward rather than forward

  May Sarton

  Real, Inspiration, Age

  May Sarton (2014). “At Seventy: A Journal”, p.2, Open Road Media

• I loved them all the way one loves at any age -- if it's real at all -- obsessively, painfully, with wild exultation, with guilt, with conflict; I wrote poems to and about them, I put them into novels (disguised of course); I brooded upon why they were as they were, so often maddening don't you know? I wrote them ridiculous letters. I lived with their faces. I knew their every gesture by heart. I stalked them like wild animals. I studied them as if they were maps of the world -- and in a way I suppose they were.

  May Sarton

  Real, Heart, Animal

  May Sarton (2014). “Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel”, p.19, Open Road Media

• Do not deprive me of my age. I have earned it.

  May Sarton

  Age, Aging

  May Sarton (2017). “The Journals of May Sarton Volume One: Journal of a Solitude, Plant Dreaming Deep, and Recovering”, p.62, Open Road Media

• 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, but everywhere walks among us freely.

  May Sarton

  Dark, Age, Violence

  May Sarton (2014). “The House by the Sea: A Journal”, p.26, Open Road Media

• How unnatural the imposed view, imposed by a puritanical ethos, that passionate love belongs only to the young, that people are dead from the neck down by the time they are forty, and that any deep feeling, any passion after that age, is either ludicrous or revolting!

  May Sarton

  Passion, Love Is, Views

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.63, Open Road Media

• gardening is a madness, a folly that does not go away with age. Quite the contrary.

  May Sarton

  Gardening, Going Away, Age

  May Sarton (2014). “At Seventy: A Journal”, p.30, Open Road Media

• Gardening is one of the rewards of middle age, when one is ready for an impersonal passion, a passion that demands patience, acute awareness of a world outside oneself, and the power to keep on growing through all the times of drought, through the cold snows, towards those moments of pure joy when all failures are forgotten and the plum tree flowers.

  May Sarton

  Flower, Passion, Snow

  May Sarton (2014). “Plant Dreaming Deep: A Journal”, p.77, Open Road Media

• For inside all the weakness of old age, the spirit, God knows, is as mercurial as it ever was.

  May Sarton

  Self Confidence, Age, Weakness

  May Sarton (2014). “Kinds of Love: A Novel”, p.181, Open Road Media

• Growing old is, of all things we experience, that which takes the most courage, and at a time when we have the least resources, especially with which to meet frustration.

  May Sarton

  Frustration, Age, Growing

  May Sarton (2014). “The House by the Sea: A Journal”, p.91, Open Road Media

• [In old age] there is a childlike innocence, often, that has nothing to do with the childishness of senility. The moments become precious . . .

  May Sarton

  Age, Innocence, Moments

  May Sarton, Earl G. Ingersoll (1991). “Conversations with May Sarton”, p.124, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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