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Life Quotes by Zora Neale Hurston
- Perhaps I am just a coward who loves to laugh at life better than I do cry with it. But when I do get to…
- Now they got to look into me loving Tea Cake and see whether it was done right or not! They don't know if life is…
- I want a busy life, a just mind, and a timely death.
- Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
- There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.
- It seems to me to be true that heavens are placed in the sky because it is the unreachable. The unreachable and therefore the unknowable…
- I don't know any more about the future than you do. I hope that it will be full of work, because I have come to…
- When the people sat around on the porch and passed around the pictures of their thoughts for the others to look at and see, it…
- Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
- Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in…
- it seems that tears and laughter, love and hate, make up the sum of life!
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle