destructiveness comes only when life isn't lived. People who can live their lives don't destroy themselves. Pearl S. Buck More Quotes by Pearl S. Buck More Quotes From Pearl S. Buck She had always been too wise to tell him all she thought and felt, knowing by some intuition of her own womanhood that no man wants to know everything of any woman. Pearl S. Buck knowingwisemen From that house there has come so much life that it ought never to die or fall into ruin... For me that house was a gateway to America. Pearl S. Buck homeamericafall Believing in gods always causes confusion. Pearl S. Buck causesconfusionbelieve 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. Pearl S. Buck atheismdiscoveryreligion It is difficult not to wonder whether that combination of elements which produces a machine for labor does not create also a soul of sorts, a dull resentful metallic will, which can rebel at times. Pearl S. Buck rebeltechnologysoul Yet there were times when he did love her with all the kindness she demanded, and how was she to know what were those times? Alone she raged against his cheerfulness and put herself at the mercy of her own love and longed to be free of it because it made her less than he and dependent on him. But how could she be free of chains she had put upon herself? Her soul was all tempest. The dreams she had once had of her life were dead. She was in prison in the house. And yet who was her jailer except herself? Pearl S. Buck dreamkindnesslove Religion was their meat and their excitement, their mental food and their emotional pleasure. Pearl S. Buck excitementemotionalmeat Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old... - Wang Lung Pearl S. Buck youngmenyears I learned to distinguish between the two kinds of people in the world: those who have known inescapable sorrow and those who have not. Pearl S. Buck sorrowtwopeople Iowans know themselves and what they are doing. They are doing well. Pearl S. Buck wellsstatesknows All in all, Vermont is a jewel state, small but precious. Pearl S. Buck vermontstatesjewels Life is stronger than death. Pearl S. Buck strongerlife-is Vermont is a country unto itself. Pearl S. Buck vermontcountry The greatest problem that war leaves, in a man, is how to recapture reality. That's because war is unreal. Pearl S. Buck menwarreality The typhoon came out of the sea first as a deep hollow roar. ... I was surrounded by the madness, the unreason, of uncontrolled, undisciplined energy. None of this made any sense. It was worse than useless - it was nature destroying its own creation - its own self. To create by the long process of growth and then to destroy by a fit of wild emotion - was this not madness, was this not unreason? Pearl S. Buck selfseaweather To understand what happens now one must find the cause, which may be very long ago in its beginning, but is surely there, and therefore a knowledge of history as detailed as possible is essential if we are to comprehend the present and be prepared for the future. Pearl S. Buck long-agoessentialsmay Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors. Pearl S. Buck chinesesurvivorpeople Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds. Pearl S. Buck freedomtiesmen As for inhibitions, I've spent a lifetime developing them, and I don't intend to lose them. Pearl S. Buck inhibitionsdevelopinglifetime He was part of a whole, a people scattered over the earth and yet eternally one and indivisible. Wherever a Jew lived, in whatever safety and isolation, he still belonged to his people. Pearl S. Buck safetyearthpeople
