I don’t know any more about the future than you do. I hope that it will be full of work, because I have come to know by experience that work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find. I want a busy life, a just mind and a timely death.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONLove makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.
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There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man’s spice-box seasons his own food.
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Bitterness is the coward’s revenge on the world for having been hurt.
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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.
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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.
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Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
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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.
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She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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My sense of humor will always stand in the way of my seeing myself, my family, my race or my nation as the whole intent of the universe.
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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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