Top 32 Zora Neale Hurston Love Quotes
#1. Things lak dat got uh whole lot tuh do wid convenience, but it ain't got nothin' tuh do wid love.
Zora Neale Hurston
#3. Love is lak de sea. It's uh movin' thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it's different with every shore.
Zora Neale Hurston
#4. 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 a mess of corn-meal dumplings, and if love is a bed-quilt!
Zora Neale Hurston
#6. If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don't keer if you die at dusk. It's so many people never seen de light at all.
Zora Neale Hurston
#7. 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
#8. Don't you love nobody better'n you do yo'self. Do, you'll be dying befo' yo' time is out.
Zora Neale Hurston
#9. There is two things everybody got to find out for theirselves. They got to find out about love and they got to find out about living.
Zora Neale Hurston
#10. It seems that tears and laughter, love and hate, make up the sum of life!
Zora Neale Hurston
#11. He ain't kissin' yo' mouf when he carry on over yuh lak dat. He's kissin' yo' foot and 'tain't in uh man tuh kiss foot long. Mouf kissin' is on uh equal and dat's natural but when dey got to bow down tuh love, dey soon straightens up.
Zora Neale Hurston
#12. She hated the old woman who had twisted her so in the name of love. Most humans didn't love one another nohow, and this mislove was so strong that even common blood couldn't overcome it all the time.
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#14. Comfort for herself. Yes, she would love Logan after they were married. She could see no way for it to come about, but Nanny and the old folks had said it, so it must be so. Husbands and wives always loved each other, and that was what
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#15. She saw a dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom; the thousand sister-calyxes arch to meet the love embrace and the ecstatic shiver of the tree from root to tiniest branch creaming in every blossom and frothing with delight. So this was a marriage!
Zora Neale Hurston
#16. When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
Zora Neale Hurston
#18. I have a strong suspicion . that much that passes for constant love is a golded- up moment walking in its sleep.
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#19. Dis love! Dat's just whut's got us uh pullin' and haulin' and sweatin' and doin' from can't see in de mornin' till can't see at night. Nanny to Janie
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#20. Perhaps love is a compelling necessity imposed on man by God that has something to do with suffering
Zora Neale Hurston
#21. Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
Zora Neale Hurston
#22. I love myself when I am laughing ... and then again when I am looking mean and impressive.
Zora Neale Hurston
#23. Husbands and wives always loved each other, and that was what marriage meant. It was just so. Janie felt glad of the thought, for then it wouldn't seem so destructive and mouldy. She wouldn't be lonely anymore.
Zora Neale Hurston
#27. Everytime Ah see uh patch uh roses uh somethin' oversportin' theyselves makin' out they pretty, Ah tell 'em 'Ah want yuh tuh see mah Janie sometime.' You must let de flowers see yuh sometimes, heah, Janie?
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#28. Zora Neale Hurston said fear is the greatest emotion and I said, 'No my dear sister.' Fear will make us move to save our own skins. Love also makes us save ourselves, but it will make us move to save others as well.
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#29. You'se something tuh make uh man forgit to git old and forgit tuh die.
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#32. Please God, please suh, don't let him love nobody else but me. Maybe Ah'm is uh fool, Lawd, lak dey say, but Lawd, Ah been so lonesome, and Ah been waitin', Jesus. Ah done waited uh long time.
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