Zora Neale Hurston Quotes - Page 2

Tell me, and then again show me, so I can know.

It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.

Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been hurt.

Happiness is nothing but everyday living seen through a veil.

I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.

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.

All gods who receive homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshipped. Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom. Half gods are worshipped in wine and flowers. Real gods require blood.

Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.

They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.

That is the way with people ... If they do you wrong, they invent a bad name for you, a good name for their acts and then destroy you in the name of virtue.

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 sword in my hands.

If writers were too wise, perhaps no books would get written at all. It might be better to ask yourself 'Why?”'afterwards than before There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you.

I love myself when I am laughing. . . and then again when I am looking mean and impressive.

Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.

Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.

truth is a letter from courage!

We must learn to be honest with ourselves, and know our shortcomings. We will acquire cohesion but we will pay dearly for being a slow pupil.

Those that don't got it, can't show it. Those that got it, can't hide it.

I know that nothing is destructible; things merely change forms.

Silence is all the genius a fool has.

I wish I could buy you for what you are really worth and sell you for what you think you're worth. I sure would make money on the deal.

There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.

Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the same horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men. Now, women forget all those things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.

An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.

Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.