May Sarton Quotes

Solitude is my element, and the reason is that extreme awareness of other people... precludes awareness of one's self so that after a while the self no longer knows that it exists.

When we are away from home, our only constant companion is our self.

Solitude is the human condition in which I keep myself company. Loneliness comes about when I am alone without being able to split up into the two-in-one, without being able to keep myself company.

In the quiet moments of your day, what do you think and do? When you are with your Self and no one else, how does life proceed for you? Who are you when you are alone? Self-creation is a Holy Experience. It is sacred. It is you, deciding Who You Are.

Be alone even when there's a million people around, because tomorrow it will be a different million people.

Lovers are not snails; they don't have to protrude from their shells and meet each other halfway. Meet me within your own self.

No matter how much we love our family and friends, a part of us needs the occasional moment of solitude as a plant needs water. It is the inmost core of each of us that, that part which nobody can define but which we all recognize because it never changes.

We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.

One of the odd enjoyments in life is to be alone in a room full of people. To have them there as unknowing human filler in your wide shot.

There's a difference between loneliness and solitude. You pursue solitude, I think. But loneliness is a completely different isolating thing.

We are always in our own company.

I’m beginning to know myself. I don’t exist. I’m the space between what I’d like to be and what others made of me. Just let me be at ease and all by myself in my room.

In solitude, where we are least alone.

What do you care? You always liked loneliness better than you liked people. No offence liking yourself's the beginning of all love.

"Getting away from it all," many people want that, and of course ultimately the only way to get away from it all is to go within, now.

Alone, I am drunk on my thoughts; in company, I am sober again.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.

A conscious mind is a mind with a self in it.

In solitude, when we are least alone.

A person has to be by himself a little bit. We weren’t born in a flock. Togetherness drives me out of my mind.

What are we when we are alone? Some, when they are alone, cease to exist.

People who grow bored in their own company seem to me in danger.

I go in solitude, so as not to drink out of everybody's cistern. When I am among the many I live as the many do, and I do not think I really think; after a time it always seems as if they want to banish myself from myself and rob me of my soul.

Every one of us is the sum total of his own thoughts

Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone.