Zora Neale Hurston Quotes

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

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

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

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.

I do not weep at the world; I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

It’s no use of talking unless people understand what you say.

Time makes everything old so that it can become new again.

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

People can be sitting right next to each other, but they are still far apart.

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

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

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

The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.

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

As I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it.

You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

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

Zora Neale Hurston Quotes part 2

If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.

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.

A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

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

I will make myself known!

If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.

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.

If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.

The average man don’t like trouble and danger.

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

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

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.

People can be sitting right next to each other, but they are still far apart.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

Time makes everything old so that it can become new again.

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.

If you are silent about your pain, they will kill you and say you enjoyed it.

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

The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.

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

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

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

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

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

Zora Neale Hurston Quotes are just as powerful and thought-provoking today as they were when she first said them.