Best 9 quotes in «their eyes were watching god quotes» category

...for no matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you....

It is so easy to be hopeful in the day time when you can see the things you wish on.

But nothin' can stop you from wishin'.

For what can excuse a man in the eyes of other men for lack of strength?

Tain't no trouble tuh say whut's already so.

So Janie waited a bloom time, and a green time and an orange time. But when the pollen again gilded the sun and sifted down on the world she began to stand around the gate and expect things. What things? She didn't know exactly. Her breath was gusty and short. She knew things that nobody had ever told her. For instance, the words of the trees and the wind. She often spoke to falling seeds and said, 'Ah hope you fall on soft ground,' because she had heard seeds saying that to each other as they passed. She knew the world was a stallion rolling in the blue pasture of ether. She 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. The familiar people and things had failed her so she hung over the gate and looked up the road towards way off. She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie's first dream was dead, so she became a woman.

She knew because she looked.

They sat on the boarding house porch and saw the sun plunge into the same crack in the earth from which the night emerged.

All of the people took it up and sung it over and over until it was wrung dry, and no further innovations of tone and tempo were conceivable. Then they hushed and ate barbecue.