May Sarton Quotes About Pain

Quotes about: Pain

• 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 trying to survive. It is all closed in, to a kind of still, intense waiting. Is this a key? Keep busy with survival. Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember that nothing stays the same for long, not even pain, psychic pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go.

  May Sarton

  Letting Go, Nature, Pain

  May Sarton (2017). “The Journals of May Sarton Volume One: Journal of a Solitude, Plant Dreaming Deep, and Recovering”, p.31, Open Road Media

• I think of the trees and how simply they let go, let fall the riches of a season, how without grief (it seems) they can let go and go deep into their roots for renewal and sleep.... Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember that nothing stays the same for long, not even pain, psychic pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go.

  May Sarton

  Letting Go, Pain, Grief

• Joy, happiness ... we do not question. They are beyond question, maybe. A matter of being. But pain forces us to think, and to make connections ... to discover what has been happening to cause it. And, curiously enough, pain draws us to other human beings in a significant way, whereas joy or happiness to some extent, isolates.

  May Sarton

  Pain, Thinking, Joy

  May Sarton (2014). “Recovering: A Journal”, p.176, Open Road Media

• Keep busy with survival. Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember nothing stays the same for long, not even pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go.

  May Sarton

  Letting Go, Pain, Order

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

• Pain can make a whole winter bright, like fever, force us to live deep and hard.

  May Sarton

  Pain, Winter, Fever

  May Sarton (2014). “At Eighty-Two: A Journal”, p.73, Open Road Media

• In the country of pain we are each alone.

  May Sarton

  Country, Pain

  May Sarton (2014). “Halfway to Silence: Poems”, p.35, Open Road Media

• The more our bodies fail us, the more naked and more demanding is the spirit, the more open and loving we can become if we are not afraid of what we are and of what we feel. I am not a phoenix yet, but here among the ashes, it may be that the pain is chiefly that of new wings trying to push through.

  May Sarton

  Pain, Wings, Phoenix

  May Sarton (2014). “Recovering: A Journal”, p.119, Open Road Media

• The only way through pain…is to absorb, probe, understand exactly what it is and what it means. To close the door on pain is to miss the chance for growth.

  May Sarton

  Pain, Mean, Doors

  May Sarton (2014). “Recovering: A Journal”, p.7, Open Road Media

• When we speak of being vulnerable, it suggests being especially vulnerable to pain. People for whom personal dignity and self-sufficiency are everything, do all they can to shut it out. Noli mi tangere. They are well aware that any intimate relationship has pain in it, forces a special kind of awareness, is costly, and so they try to keep themselves unencumbered by shutting pain out as far as it is possible to do so.

  May Sarton

  Pain, Intimate Relationships, Self

  May Sarton (2014). “Recovering: A Journal”, p.176, Open Road Media

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