May Sarton Age Quotations

gardening is a madness, a folly that does not go away with age. Quite the contrary.

Do not deprive me of my age. I have earned it.

It is possible, I suppose, that we are returning to a Dark Age. What is frightening is that violence is not only represented by nations, but everywhere walks among us freely.

I suppose real old age begins when one looks backward rather than forward

For inside all the weakness of old age, the spirit, God knows, is as mercurial as it ever was.

Growing old is, of all things we experience, that which takes the most courage, and at a time when we have the least resources, especially with which to meet frustration.

Old age is not an illness, it is a timeless ascent. As power diminishes, we grow toward the light.

One of the good elements of old age is that we no longer have to prove anything, to ourselves or to anyone else. We are what we are.

[In old age] there is a childlike innocence, often, that has nothing to do with the childishness of senility. The moments become precious . . .

The trouble is, old age is not interesting until one gets there. It's a foreign country with an unknown language to the young and even to the middle-aged.

It is, I assume, quite easy to wither into old age, and hard to grow into it.