Life Quotes Quote by May Sarton — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.”

“I am not ready to die,”

“Where music thundered let the mind be still,”

“We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.”

“A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.”

“The Fur Person learned then and there that it is better to be a philosopher than to be a king and that, all things considered, wisdom was to be preferred to power.”

“Slowly, with many lost days, I come back to life.”

“It's everybody, I mean. Everything everybody does is so — I don't know — not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and — sad-making. And the worst part is, if you go bohemian or something crazy like that, you're conforming just as much only in a different way.”

“My life will be the best illustration of all my work.”

“Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language.”

““Here's a secret: Everyone, if they live long enough, will lose their way at some point. You will lose your way, you will wake up one morning and find yourself lost. This is a hard, simple truth. If it hasn't happened to you yet, consider yourself lucky. When it does, when one day you look around and nothing is recognizable, when you find yourself alone in a dark wood having lost the way, you may find it easier to blame it on someone else -- an errant lover, a missing father, a bad childhood -- or it may be easier to blame the map you were given -- folded too many times, out-of-date, tiny print -- but mostly, if you are honest, you will only be able to blame yourself.”