She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONIt 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.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
-
-
I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON -
An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON -
Love is like the sea. It’s a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON -
The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON -
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON -
So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON -
She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON -
She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON -
An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done ‘heard’ bout you just what they hope done happened.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON -
Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON -
Truth is a letter from courage!
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 -
I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON -
She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON -
Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON -
The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON -
I have been in Sorrow’s kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and a sword in my hands.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON -
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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 -
They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON -
In the cool afternoon the fiend from hell specifically sent to lovers arrived at Janie’s ear. Doubt.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON -
Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON -
Those that don’t got it, can’t show it. Those that got it, can’t hide it.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON -
There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON -
Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.
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