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15 quotes

SortEditorial Year Length

Place·Florida✕clear

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

Zora Neale Hurston

Their Eyes Were Watching God · 1937

★ 7.3

Autobiography and memoir

Love may be a sleepy, creeping thing with some others, but it is a mighty wakening thing with me.

Zora Neale Hurston

Dust Tracks on a Road · 1942

★ 7.0

Autobiography and memoir

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 a Road · 1942

★ 5.3

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results.

1983

★ 5.2

No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.

Zora Neale Hurston

Their Eyes Were Watching God · 1937

★ 3.9

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 horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men.

Zora Neale Hurston

Their Eyes Were Watching God · 1937

★ 3.7

Autobiography and memoir

Gods always behave like the people who make them.

Zora Neale Hurston

1938

★ 3.7

Novel · Young adult fiction

If people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.

2005

★ 3.6

Novel · Young adult fiction

As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.

The Fault In Our Stars · 2012

★ 3.6

Alternative facts are not facts, they're falsehoods.

2017

★ 3.6

I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes... I do not weep at the world-I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

Zora Neale Hurston

1928

★ 3.5

Men at forty Learn to close softly The doors to rooms they will not be Coming back to.

1967

★ 3.5

Autobiography and memoir

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

Zora Neale Hurston

Dust Tracks on a Road · 1942

★ 2.1

There is nothing in the world except empty curved space. Matter, charge, electromagnetism and other fields are only manifestations of the curvature of space.

John Archibald Wheeler

1960

★ 1.7

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive characteristic.

James Weldon Johnson

1930

★ 1.0