Zora Neale Hurston Quotes

Most popular Zora Neale Hurston Quotes

An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. - Zora Neale Hurston quote.
An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.
— Zora Neale Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching God

envy

Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. - Zora Neale Hurston quote.
Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.
— Zora Neale Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching God

ships

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. - Zora Neale Hurston quote.
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
— Zora Neale Hurston

love

There is something about poverty that smells like death. - Zora Neale Hurston quote.
There is something about poverty that smells like death.
— Zora Neale Hurston Dust Tracks on the Road

poverty

Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear. - Zora Neale Hurston quote.
Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.
— Zora Neale Hurston Dust Tracks on the Road

anger fear

There are years that ask questions and years that answer. - Zora Neale Hurston quote.
There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
— Zora Neale Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching God

asking questions years

There is no agony like bearing an untold story within you. - Zora Neale Hurston quote.
There is no agony like bearing an untold story within you.
— Zora Neale Hurston Dust Tracks on the Road

why I write

There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you. - Zora Neale Hurston quote.
There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you.
— Zora Neale Hurston Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography

stories agony

Learning without wisdom is a load of books on a donkey's back. - Zora Neale Hurston quote.
Learning without wisdom is a load of books on a donkey's back.

learning

Once you wake up thought in a man, you can never put it to sleep again. - Zora Neale Hurston quote.
Once you wake up thought in a man, you can never put it to sleep again.

thinking

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. - Zora Neale Hurston quote.
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
— Zora Neale Hurston Dust Tracks on the Road

research curiosity

You are right to listen to proverbs.  They are short sayings made out of long experience. - Zora Neale Hurston quote.
You are right to listen to proverbs.  They are short sayings made out of long experience.

proverbs

It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing—nothing. - Zora Neale Hurston quote.
It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing—nothing.
— Zora Neale Hurston risk losing everything

risk-taking

Ah seen a man so ugly till they had to spread a sheet over his head at night so sleep could slip up on him. - Zora Neale Hurston quote.
Ah seen a man so ugly till they had to spread a sheet over his head at night so sleep could slip up on him.
— Zora Neale Hurston

beauty

It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. - Zora Neale Hurston quote.
It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee.
— Zora Neale Hurston Dust Tracks on the Road

friendship

Silence is all the genius a fool has and it is one of the things a smart man knows how to use when he needs it. - Zora Neale Hurston quote.
Silence is all the genius a fool has and it is one of the things a smart man knows how to use when he needs it.

silence foolishness

It seems like the first law of Nature is that everybody likes to receive things, but nobody likes to feel grateful. - Zora Neale Hurston quote.
It seems like the first law of Nature is that everybody likes to receive things, but nobody likes to feel grateful.

gratitude

She had found a jewel down inside herself and she had wanted to walk where people could see her and gleam it around. - Zora Neale Hurston quote.
She had found a jewel down inside herself and she had wanted to walk where people could see her and gleam it around.
— 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. - Zora Neale Hurston quote.
Love, I find, is like singing.  Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.
— Zora Neale Hurston Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography

love

Happiness is not something you can catch and lock up in a vault like wealth.  Happiness is nothing but everyday living seen through a veil. - Zora Neale Hurston quote.
Happiness is not something you can catch and lock up in a vault like wealth.  Happiness is nothing but everyday living seen through a veil.

happiness

I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and a sword in my hands. - Zora Neale Hurston quote.
I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and a sword in my hands.
— Zora Neale Hurston Dust Tracks on the Road

sorrow

When we sing the blues, we're singing out our hearts, we're singing out our feelings.  Maybe we're hurt and just can't answer back, then we sing or maybe even hum the blues. - Zora Neale Hurston quote.
When we sing the blues, we're singing out our hearts, we're singing out our feelings.  Maybe we're hurt and just can't answer back, then we sing or maybe even hum the blues.
— Zora Neale Hurston Hear Me Talkin’ to Ya

blues

There is something about poverty that smells like death.  Dead dreams dropping off the heart like leaves in a dry season and rotting around the feet; impulses smothered too long in the fetid air of underground caves. - Zora Neale Hurston quote.
There is something about poverty that smells like death.  Dead dreams dropping off the heart like leaves in a dry season and rotting around the feet; impulses smothered too long in the fetid air of underground caves.
— Zora Neale Hurston Dust Tracks on the Road

dreams