They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
ZORA NEALE HURSTONIt was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.
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Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
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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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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.
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If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
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There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.
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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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If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don’t keer if you die at dusk. It’s so many people never seen de light at all.
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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.
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Truth is a letter from courage!
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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.
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She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
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Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
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