May Sarton Quotes

Sooner or later you've heard all your best friends have to say. Then comes the tolerance of real love.

The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?

If you are going to be with someone all the time, they need to be your best friend.

Friendship is full of dregs.

A blessed thing it is to have a friend; one human soul whom we can trust utterly; who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults; who will speak the honest truth to us, while the world flatters us to our face, and laughs at us behind our back; who will give us counsel and reproof in a day of prosperity and self-conceit; but who, again, will comfort and encourage us in days of difficulty and sorrow, when the world leaves us alone to fight our own battle as we can.

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

What is a friend? I will tell you... it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.

Everybody needs one essential friend.

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.

Some of the choicest blessings of my life have been the close friendships I have experienced over the years. Often, these friendships have been forged in the fires of shared experience.

We all need friends, and friends are there to hold you up when nothing else can.

Friendship is a thing most necessary to life, since without friends no one would choose to live, though possessed of all other advantages.

Thou learnest no secret until thou knowest friendship, since to the unsound no heavenly knowledge enters.

There is no more precious experience in life than friendship. And I am not forgetting love and marriage as I write this; the lovers, or the man and wife, who are not friends are but weakly joined together. One enlarges his circle of friends through contact with many people. One who limits those contacts narrows the circle and frequently his own point of view as well.

What a wonderful thing it is to have a good friend. He identifies your innermost desires, and spares you the embarrassment of disclosing them to him yourself.

Having a sister or a friend is like sitting at night in a lighted house. Those outside can watch you if they want, but you need not see them. You simply say, "Here are the perimeters of our attention. If you prowl around under the windows till the crickets go silent, we will pull the shades. If you wish us to suffer your envious curiosity, you must permit us not to notice it." Anyone with one solid human bond is that smug, and it is the smugness as much as the comfort and safety that lonely people covet and admire.

Friendship is a creature formed for a companionship not for a herd.

You're my friend, Danny. You understand? There's no debt between friends." Maybe it's just that the debt gets so high you stop counting it.

Friendship admits of difference of character, as love does that of sex.

They just knew. And I think that's all you can ever ask from a friend.

Friendship is an Algebra test that nobody passes.

...a really good friend, the kind of friend who - when they were together both of them were more able to be who they really were.

What is a friend? I will tell you . . . . it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than the government. It is almost the equal of family.- Don Corleone