She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONNo, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
-
-
If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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 -
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 -
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.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON -
The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON -
She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON -
No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON -
I love myself when I am laughing. And then again when I am looking mean and impressive.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON -
When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON -
You heard me. You ain’t blind.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON -
Love, I find, is like singing.
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 -
Those that don’t got it, can’t show it. Those that got it, can’t hide it.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON -
Mystery is the essence of divinity
ZORA NEALE HURSTON