Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONIn the cool afternoon the fiend from hell specifically sent to lovers arrived at Janie’s ear. Doubt.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
-
-
My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON -
Truth is a letter from courage!
ZORA NEALE HURSTON -
The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON -
Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to ‘jump at the sun.’ We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON -
Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON -
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON -
Mystery is the essence of divinity
ZORA NEALE HURSTON -
There is two things everybody got to find out for themselves. They got to find out about love and they got to find out about living.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON -
Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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 -
He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON -
It was the meanest moment of eternity.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON -
So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirst of the day.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON -
She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON -
When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON