Zora Neale Hurston Quotes About Feelings

Quotes about: Feelings

• 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 always seems divine--hence, religion. People need religion because the great masses fear life and its consequences. Its responsibilities weigh heavy. Feeling a weakness in the face of great forces, men seek an alliance with omnipotence to bolster up their feeling of weakness, even though the omnipotence they rely upon is a creature of their own minds. It gives them a feeling of security.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Responsibility, Men, Omnipotence

• 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 all. I do not belong to the sobbing school of Negrohood who hold that nature somehow has given them a lowdown dirty deal and whose feelings are all hurt about it. Even in the helter-skelter skirmish that is my life, I have seen that the world is to the strong regardless of a little pigmentation more or less. No, I do not weep at the world—I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Strong, Hurt, Dirty

  World Tomorrow "How It Feels to Be Colored Me" (1928)
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  If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Feelings, Abuse, Doing Things For Others

  Zora Neale Hurston (1995). “Zora Neale Hurston: Novels and Stories: Jonah's Gourd Vine / Their Eyes Were Watching God / Moses, Man of the Mountain / Seraph on the Suwanee / Selected Stories”

• There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Sight, Feelings, Mind

  Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.31, University of Illinois Press

• I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Feelings, Mind, Matter

  Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). “I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader”, p.74, Feminist Press at CUNY

• She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Men, Saving Up, Feelings

  Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.87, University of Illinois Press

• When we sing the blues, we're singin' 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

  Hurt, Heart, Feelings

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