In the cool afternoon the fiend from hell specifically sent to lovers arrived at Janie’s ear. Doubt.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONTwo things everybody’s got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin’ fuh theyselves.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
-
-
Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON -
Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches
ZORA NEALE HURSTON -
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON -
He looked like the love thoughts of women.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON -
An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done ‘heard’ bout you just what they hope done happened.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON -
There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON -
Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON -
Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON -
Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON -
The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON -
There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON -
If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON -
Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
ZORA NEALE HURSTON -
I love myself when I am laughing. And then again when I am looking mean and impressive.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON -
It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON