May Sarton Quotes About Old Age

Quotes about: Old 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

• 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

• [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

• 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

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