Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
People who are always thinking of the feelings of others can be very destructive because they are hiding so much from themselves.
May Sarton
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
May Sarton
Age: 83 †
Born: 1912
Born: May 3
Died: 1995
Died: July 16
Diarist
Poet
Writer
May Eleanor Sarton
Much
Always
Thinking
People
Hiding
Destructive
Feelings
Others
More quotes by May Sarton
We cannot afford not to fight for growth and understanding, even when it is painful, as it is bound to be.
May Sarton
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
We only keep what we lose.
May Sarton
[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
It is always hard to hear the buried truth from another person.
May Sarton
There the door is always open into the “holy” — growth, birth, death.
May Sarton
I suppose I envy painters because they can meditate on form and structure, on color and light, and not concern themselves with human torment and chaos. It is restful even to imagine expression without words.
May Sarton
My own feeling is that the only possible reason for engaging in the hard labor of writing a novel, is that one is bothered by something one needs to understand, and can come to understand only through the characters in the imagined situation.
May Sarton
When addressed, a Gentleman Cat does not move a muscle. He looks as if he hasn't heard.
May Sarton
And one cold starry night / Whatever your belief / The phoenix will take flight / Over the seas of grief / To sing her thrilling song / To stars and waves and sky / For neither old nor young / The phoenix does not die.
May Sarton
Where music thundered let the mind be still, Where the will triumphed let there be no will, What light revealed, now let the dark fulfill.
May Sarton
I can understand people simply fleeing the mountainous effort Christmas has become... but there are always a few saving graces and finally they make up for all the bother and distress.
May Sarton
When one's not writing poems - and I'm not at the moment - you wonder how you ever did it. It's like another country you can't reach.
May Sarton
O cruel cloudless space, And pale bare ground where the poor infant lies! Why do we feel restored As in a sacramental place? Here Mystery is artifice, And here a vision of such peace is stored, Healing flows from it through our eyes.
May Sarton
They are commiting murder who merely live.
May Sarton
A body without bones would be a limp impossible mess, so a day without steady routine would be disruptive and chaotic.
May Sarton
Miracles cannot be explained, that is their miraculous nature.
May Sarton
I have written every poem, every novel, for the same purpose-to find out what I think, to know where I stand.
May Sarton
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
She became for me an island of light, fun, wisdom where I could run with my discoveries and torments and hopes at any time of day and find welcome.
May Sarton
