Zora Neale Hurston Quotes About Life

Quotes about: Life

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

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Life, Inspiring, Time

  Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). “I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader”, p.246, Feminist Press at CUNY

• 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.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Life, Dream, Women

  Their Eyes Were Watching God ch. 1 (1937)

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

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Life, Ocean, People

  Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.109, University of Illinois Press

• I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Life, Eye, Soul

  Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). “I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader”, p.153, Feminist Press at CUNY

• 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.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Life, Thinking, People

  "Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography".

• 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.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Life, Sorry, Pain

  Zora Neale Hurston (1969). “Dust tracks on a road”

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