May Sarton Quotes

The older I get, the better I used to be.

Most writers, by the time they're 60, must have revisited their childhood a dozen times.

Only when your memories are more important to you than your goals are you old.

The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

I am too old to think.

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.

I don't know why it is, but sometimes I feel like I'm 60. It's like I've been around for a long time. I felt that way even when I was 8.

Age wins and one must learn to grow old.

Age doesn't bother me. So many of my heroes were older guys. It's the lack of years left that weighs far heavier on me than the age that I am.

Old age and the passage of time teach all things.

You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.

The thing to remember about being young is you eventually get old.

Being middle-aged is about realising that you've lived most of your life. You don't have as much time in front of you as you have behind you.

Now that I near 80, I realize with wistful pleasure that on many occasions I was 10, 20, 40, even 50 years ahead of my time.

Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.

By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

I wouldn't be young again even if it were possible, but I am not going to pretend that growing old is all sweetness and light.

You wake up one day and suddenly realize that your youth is behind you, even though you're still young at heart.

Age, what is it? It's not a figure that has ever meant anything to me.

You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up.

The good old times—all times when old are good.

I have been asked how I grow old so easily. The answer is: I give all my time to it.

There is something to be said for being older - and memories.