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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.

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.

May Sarton
Age, Elements, Prove
May Sarton (2014). “The House by the Sea: A Journal”, p.143, Open Road Media

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

May Sarton
Age, Assuming, Easy
May Sarton (2014). “The House by the Sea: A Journal”, p.16, Open Road Media

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.

May Sarton
Country, Interesting, Age

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

May Sarton
Age, Aging
May Sarton (2017). “The Journals of May Sarton Volume One: Journal of a Solitude, Plant Dreaming Deep, and Recovering”, p.62, Open Road Media

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.

May Sarton
Frustration, Age, Growing
May Sarton (2014). “The House by the Sea: A Journal”, p.91, Open Road Media

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

May Sarton
Gardening, Going Away, Age
May Sarton (2014). “At Seventy: A Journal”, p.30, Open Road Media

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

May Sarton
Age, Innocence, Moments
May Sarton, Earl G. Ingersoll (1991). “Conversations with May Sarton”, p.124, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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

May Sarton
Light, Age, Ascent

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

May Sarton
Real, Inspiration, Age
May Sarton (2014). “At Seventy: A Journal”, p.2, Open Road Media

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

May Sarton
Self Confidence, Age, Weakness
May Sarton (2014). “Kinds of Love: A Novel”, p.181, Open Road Media

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.

May Sarton
Dark, Age, Violence
May Sarton (2014). “The House by the Sea: A Journal”, p.26, Open Road Media

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