May Sarton Quotes About Loss

Quotes about: Loss

• I would like to believe when I die that I have given myself away like a tree that sows seed every spring and never counts the loss, because it is not loss, it is adding to future life. It is the tree's way of being. Strongly rooted perhaps, but spilling out its treasure on the wind.

  May Sarton

  Spring, Believe, Loss

  May Sarton (2014). “Recovering: A Journal”, p.121, Open Road Media

• A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.

  May Sarton

  Death, Failure, Loss

  May Sarton (2014). “At Seventy: A Journal”, p.53, Open Road Media

• 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

  Nature, Mean, Loss

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.111, Open Road Media

• We only keep what we lose.

  May Sarton

  Loss, Loses

  May Sarton (2014). “The Lion and the Rose: Poems”, p.87, Open Road Media

• For of course one is never safe when in love. Growth is demanding and may seem dangerous, for there is loss as well as gain in growth. But why go on living if one has ceased to grow? And what more demanding atmosphere for growth than love in any form, than any relationship which can call out and requires of us our most secret and deepest selves?

  May Sarton

  Loss, Self, Atmosphere

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.53, Open Road Media

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