May Sarton Quotes About Solitude

Quotes about: Solitude

• Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.

  May Sarton

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

  May Sarton (2014). “Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel”, p.92, Open Road Media

• There is no doubt that solitude is a challenge and to maintain balance within it a precarious business. But I must not forget that, for me, being with people or even with one beloved person for any length of time without solitude is even worse. I lose my center. I feel dispersed, scattered, in pieces. I must have time alone in which to mull over my encounter, and to extract its juice, its essence, to understand what has really happened to me as a consequence of it.

  May Sarton

  Essence, People, Challenges

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

• Solitude is the salt of personhood. It brings out the authentic flavor of every experience.

  May Sarton

  Solitude, Flavor, Salt

• Life comes in clusters, clusters of solitude, then a cluster when there is hardly time to breathe.

  May Sarton

  Life, Solitude, Breathe

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.100, Open Road Media

• I can tell you that solitude Is not all exaltation, inner space Where the soul breathes and work can be done. Solitude exposes the nerve, Raises up ghosts. The past, never at rest, flows through it.

  May Sarton

  Past, Space, Soul

  May Sarton (2015). “May Sarton: A Self-Portrait”, p.17, Open Road Media

• I simply adore being alone - I find it a consuming thirst - and when that thirst is slaked, then I am happy.

  May Sarton

  Solitude, Adore, Thirst

• At any moment solitude may put on the face of loneliness.

  May Sarton

  Loneliness, Solitude, May

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

• Once more I realize that solitude is my element, and the reason is that extreme awareness of other people (all naturally solitary people must feel this) precludes awareness of one's self, so after a while the self no longer knows that it exists.

  May Sarton

  Self, People, Solitude

  May Sarton (2014). “At Seventy: A Journal”, p.135, Open Road Media

• Solitude is one thing and loneliness is another.

  May Sarton

  Loneliness, Solitude, One Thing

  May Sarton (2014). “I Knew a Phoenix: Sketches for an Autobiography”, p.16, Open Road Media

• Solitude is my element, and the reason is that extreme awareness of other people... precludes awareness of one's self so that after a while the self no longer knows that it exists.

  May Sarton

  Self, People, Solitude

  May Sarton (2014). “At Seventy: A Journal”, p.135, Open Road Media

• There is a wilder solitude in winter When every sense is pricked alive and keen.

  May Sarton

  Winter, Solitude, Alive

  May Sarton (2014). “As Does New Hampshire: And Other Poems”, p.10, Open Road Media

• The value of solitude - one of its values - is, of course, that there is nothing to cushion against attacks from within, just as there is nothing to help balance at times of particular stress or depression.

  May Sarton

  Stress, Solitude, Balance

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.8, Open Road Media

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