On this earth, though far and near, without love, there's only fear. Pearl S. Buck More Quotes by Pearl S. Buck More Quotes From Pearl S. Buck A hungry man can't see right or wrong. He just sees food. Pearl S. Buck food-bankspovertymen We must have hope or starve to death. Pearl S. Buck having-hopehopeinspirational Men and women should own the world as a mutual possession. Pearl S. Buck shouldmenworld destructiveness comes only when life isn't lived. People who can live their lives don't destroy themselves. Pearl S. Buck destructivenesspeople No writer, I believe, should attempt a novel before he is thirty, and not then unless he has been hopelessly and helplessly involved in life. For the writer who goes out to find material for a novel, as a fishermen goes out to sea to fish, will certainly not write a good novel. Life has to be lived thoughtlessly, unconsciously, at full tilt and for no purpose except its own sake before it becomes, eventually, good material for a novel. Pearl S. Buck seawritingbelieve Our children ... are not treated with sufficient respect as human beings, and yet from the moment they are born they have this right to respect. We keep them children for too long, their world separate from the real world of life. Pearl S. Buck reallongchildren an artist is always seeking revelation. Pearl S. Buck revelationsyouthartist In this unbelievable universe in which we live, there are no absolutes. Even parallel lines, reaching into infinity, meet somewhere yonder. Pearl S. Buck possibilitylinesinfinity 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. Pearl S. Buck prejudicewishwant 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. Pearl S. Buck realopportunitymen to know how to read is to light a lamp in the mind, to release the soul from prison, to open a gate to the universe." from Pavilion of Women page 292 Pearl S. Buck lightsoulmind To know what one can have and to do with it, being prepared for no more, is the basis of equilibrium. Pearl S. Buck equilibriumbasespreparation 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. Pearl S. Buck lightrootstwo 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. Pearl S. Buck meditationtimehands 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. Pearl S. Buck unityheartmen When hope is taken away from a people, moral degeneration follows swiftly thereafter. Pearl S. Buck takenhopepeople He saw on the paper a picture of a man, white-skinned, who hung upon a crosspiece of wood. The man was without clothes except for a bit about his loins, and to all appearences he was dead, since his head drooped upon his shoulder and his eyes were closed above his bearded lips. Wang Lung looked at the pictured man in horror and with increasing interest. Pearl S. Buck eyewhitemen What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born. Pearl S. Buck neglectbornchildren French is the most beautiful,” he said, “and Italian is the most poetic, and Russian the most powerful, German the most solid. But more business is done in English than in any other. Pearl S. Buck italianpowerfulbeautiful At my age the bones are water in the morning until food is given them. Pearl S. Buck cookingmorningwater
