It is one of the blessings of this world that few people see visions and dream dreams.

— Zora Neale Hurston

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

— Zora Neale Hurston

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 lot of trouble and then not worth much after you get it.

— Zora Neale Hurston

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 lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.

— Zora Neale Hurston

It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.

— Zora Neale Hurston

It was hard to love a woman that always made you feel so wishful.

— Zora Neale Hurston

It was the meanest moment of eternity.

— Zora Neale Hurston

I want a busy life a just mind and a timely death.

— Zora Neale Hurston

Janie knew that God tore down the old world every evening and built a new one by sun-up. It was wonderful to see it take form with the sun and emerge from the gray dust of its making.

— Zora Neale Hurston

John will never forsake the weak and the helpless, nor fail to bring hope to the hopeless. That is what they believe, and so they do not worry. They go on and laugh and sing. Things are bound to come out right tomorrow. That is the secret of Negro song and laughter.

— Zora Neale Hurston