Quote

I sometimes think men don't 'hear' very well, if I take your meaning to be 'understand what is going on in a person.' That's what makes them so restful. Women wear each other out with their everlasting touching of the nerve.

May Sarton

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

May Sarton
Age: 83 †
Born: 1912
Born: May 3
Died: 1995
Died: July 16
Diarist
Poet
Writer
May Eleanor Sarton
Well
Meaning
Take
Hear
Sometimes
Understand
Restful
Going
Makes
Nerve
Men
Women
Everlasting
Think
Persons
Touching
Thinking
Person
Nerves
Wells
Wear

More quotes by May Sarton

Image
The most valuable thing we can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the changing light of room, not try to be or do anything whatever.
May Sarton
Image
May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best - out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant that is what matters.
May Sarton
Image
We have to make myths of our lives, the point being that if we do, then every grief or inexplicable seizure by weather, woe, or work can-if we discipline ourselves and think hard enough-be turned to account, be made to yield further insight into what it is to be alive, to be a human being.
May Sarton
Image
True feeling justifies whatever it may cost.
May Sarton
Image
The body is a universe in itself and must be held as sacred as anything in creation....It is dangerous to forget the body as sacramental.
May Sarton
Image
Where joy in an old pencil is not absurd.
May Sarton
Image
What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast.
May Sarton
Image
There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.
May Sarton
Image
It is curious how any making of order makes one feel mentally ordered, ordered inside.
May Sarton
Image
A body without bones would be a limp impossible mess, so a day without steady routine would be disruptive and chaotic.
May Sarton
Image
Old age is not an illness, it is a timeless ascent. As power diminishes, we grow toward the light.
May Sarton
Image
So this was fame at last! Nothing but a vast debt to be paid to the world in energy, blood, and time.
May Sarton
Image
If I were to choose one single thing that that would restore Paris to the senses, it would be that strangely sweet, unhealthy smell of the Métro, so very unlike the dank cold or the stuffy heat of subways in New York.
May Sarton
Image
People who cannot feel punish those who do.
May Sarton
Image
Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything - except itself.
May Sarton
Image
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
Image
It feels a long way up and down from zero.
May Sarton
Image
Light is snow sifted / To an abstraction.
May Sarton
Image
What we have not has made us what we are. / ... / What we are not drives us to consummation.
May Sarton
Image
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