May Sarton Quotes

In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world.

Me, myself and I. That's all I got in the end.

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

I don't collaborate. You're born alone, you die alone, you get on stage alone.

I've always been alone. I grew up alone. I like it that way. Even when I'm in an arena surrounded by 10,000 people, I'm alone in my head.

Any man who is really a man must learn to be alone in the midst of others, to think alone for others, and, if necessary, against others.

In those days, I still thoroughly enjoyed the romance I called "by myself"; I didn't know yet how it gets lonely, picks up a sharp edge later on that ruins a day now and then-- ruins more than that, if you're not careful.

I had been alone more than I could have been had I gone by myself.

One's better off alone, and yet there are so many things that are impossible to fathom on one's own. In fact it's a terrible business and the task is a hard one.

Born alone, die alone, no crew to keep my crown or throne

At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and again it is the best thing in life that each should have everything in himself; his fate, his future, his whole expanse and world.

It is useless to advise solitude for everyone; one must be strong enough to endure it and to work alone.

But there it is: Everyone is alone, for life, and maybe that's not such a bad thing.

In the end you have only you.

It's only when you're alone that you realize where you are. You have nothing to fall back on except your own resources.

What I was reading was already part of my psyche, but finally someone else was saying it's okay to walk alone.

So it is necessary that we should learn to be alone.

Be able to live alone, even if you don't want to and think you will never find it necessary.

No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.

Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone.

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

I think I learned pretty early that in the end, it's only you. To an extent, you're all alone.

For each one of us stands alone in the midst of a universe.

My real guru are my experiences in life - the realisation that you are alone in this world came very early to me.