Quotes by Zora Neale Hurston

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

I want a busy life a just mind and a timely death.

Once you wake up thought in a man you can never put it to sleep again.

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

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

Women forget all the things they dont want to remember and remember everything they dont want to forget.

No man may make another free.

They made burning statements with questions, and killing tools out of laughs. It was mass cruelty. A mood come alive. Words walking without master...

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

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.

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.

So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter.

Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.

Its a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.

The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.

“Love is like the sea. Its a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and its different with every shore.”

“It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.”

“It was the meanest moment of eternity.”

“Of course he wasnt dead. He could never be dead until she herself had finished feeling and thinking. The kiss of his memory made pictures of love and light against the wall. Here was peace. She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net. Pulled it from around the waist of the world and draped it over her shoulder. So much of life in its meshes! She called in her soul to come and see.”