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 HURSTONShe had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
More Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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Look like she been livin’ through a hundred years in January without one day of spring.
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No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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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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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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She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.
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She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
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Those that don’t got it, can’t show it. Those that got it, can’t hide it.
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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.
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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
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Truth is a letter from courage!
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One finds great comfort in good dinners.
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Mystery is the essence of divinity
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He looked like the love thoughts of women.
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I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.
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