Zora Neale Hurston Quotes

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.

There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you.

I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.

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.

Some things you have to take on faith, like even getting up in the morning. Do you know where your atoms are every night? Only on faith.

No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.

I felt a sudden rush of pride, for there is scarce one of us who has not been made happy by a woman some time or another.

You don’t always win, but every time you lose, you get better.

When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.

I belong to no race nor time. I am the eternal feminine with its string of beads.

I am not tragically colored. I do not mind at all. Do not weep for me.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

She was the apple of her eye, the kitten in her lap, the rose in her lapel.

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

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.

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

I feel most colored when thrown against a sharp white background.

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.

It is one of the blessings of this world that few people see visions and dream dreams.

The game of keeping what one has is never so exciting as the game of getting.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.

There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you.

I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.

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.

Some things you have to take on faith, like even getting up in the morning. Do you know where your atoms are every night? Only on faith.

No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.

I felt a sudden rush of pride, for there is scarce one of us who has not been made happy by a woman some time or another.

You don’t always win, but every time you lose, you get better.

When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.

I belong to no race nor time. I am the eternal feminine with its string of beads.

I am not tragically colored. I do not mind at all. Do not weep for me.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

She was the apple of her eye, the kitten in her lap, the rose in her lapel.

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

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.

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

I feel most colored when thrown against a sharp white background.

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.

It is one of the blessings of this world that few people see visions and dream dreams.

The game of keeping what one has is never so exciting as the game of getting.