Pearl S. Buck Quotes
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Sooner or later the young always betrayed the old.
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As for inhibitions, I've spent a lifetime developing them, and I don't intend to lose them.
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Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.
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men cannot be free in a nation where women are forbidden freedom.
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there's two kinds of folk in the world, just like there's two kinds of life in a seed. Something sends one kind up to hunt its food in the light and air, and sends the other kind down into the earth to make the roots.
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If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.
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It is worse than folly... not to recognize the truth, for in it lies the tinder for tomorrow.
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Our bodies can be mobilized by law and police and men with guns, if necessary-but where shall we find that which will make us believe in what we must do, so that we can fight through to victory?
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In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.
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Believing in gods always causes confusion.
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God is not in the vastness of greatness. He is hid in the vastness of smallness . He is not in the general. He is in the particular.
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There will be no real content among American women unless they are made and kept more ignorant or unless they are given equal opportunity with men to use what they have been taught. And American men will not be really happy until their women are.
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We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.
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When we define democracy now it must still be as a thing hoped for but not seen.
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You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.
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I am mentally bifocal.
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Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman.
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In our changing world nothing changes more than geography.
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I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.
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Prejudice ... is a subjective emotion which expresses itself upon others only because of an inner necessity for release. The object is irrelevant and opportune. The person who feels prejudice is the victim of himself and his own unhappiness and dissatisfaction. Life is not what he wants it to be and it has not been what he wishes it had been.
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Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
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Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.
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A woman's mind is not an instrument apart from her other being. She does not separate herself as man does, now flesh, now mind, now heart. She is there as one, a unity complete and unified.
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Religion was their meat and their excitement, their mental food and their emotional pleasure.
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I learned to distinguish between the two kinds of people in the world: those who have known inescapable sorrow and those who have not.
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It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.
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Life is the wonder with which we are all infused.
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Can such stiff and formal moldings as words capture the spirit-essence of love?
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We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.
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To know what one can have and to do with it, being prepared for no more, is the basis of equilibrium.
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