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Zora Neale Hurston Quotes: 12

  • Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

  • There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

    Their Eyes Were Watching God
  • Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me.

  • I have known the joy and pain of friendship. I have served and been served. I have made some good enemies for which I am not a bit sorry. I have loved unselfishly, and I have fondled hatred with the red-hot tongs of Hell. That's living.

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

    Their Eyes Were Watching God
  • 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.

    Their Eyes Were Watching God
  • When God had made The Man, he made him out of stuff that sung all the time and glittered all over. Some angels got jealous and chopped him into millions of pieces, but still he glittered and hummed. So they beat him down to nothing but sparks but each little spark had a shine and a song. So they covered each one over with mud. And the lonesomeness in the sparks make them hunt for one another.

    Their Eyes Were Watching God
  • Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

  • 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.

  • 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.

    Dust Tracks on a Road
  • For the first time she could see a man's head naked of its skull. Saw the cunning thoughts race in and out through the caves and promontories of his mind long before they darted through the tunnel of his mouth.

    Their Eyes Were Watching God
  • It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.