Pearl S. Buck Quotes

The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bra...

We need to restore the full meaning of that old word duty. It is the other side of rights.

It is better to be first with an ugly woman than the hundreth with a beauty.

The old deep sadness of life lay in the bottom of her heart and she knew it was there, but she would...

Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothe...

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does n...

When we know what we want to prove we go out and find our facts. They are always there.

Love alone could waken love.

Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsough...

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from me...

To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.

I am comforted by life's stability by earth's unchangeableness. What has seemed new and frightening...

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom ...

I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get...

Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.

Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and ...

One faces the future with one's past.

I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get...

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone, and that's where I renew my springs that never dry ...

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word-excellence. To know how to do something well is t...

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed i...

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they exp...

As for New York City, it is a place apart. There is not its match in any other country in the world.

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings.

Once the "what" is decided the "how" always follows. We must not make the "how" an excuse for not f...

Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by t...

To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.

We must learn to live with danger, " he now said to Kino. "Do you mean the ocean and the volcano can...

In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the n...

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does n...

The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhuman...

Introversion at least if extreme is a sign of mental and spiritual immaturity.

Love dies only when growth stops.

Some of the biggest failures I ever had were successes.

Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored — it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow...

However impatient she might be in the day, however filled with little sudden angers, at night she wa...

To those at the great house it means nothing, this handful of earth, but to me it means how much!" (...

Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old...- Wang Lung

Wang Lung sat smoking, thinking of the silver as it had lain upon the table. It had come out of the ...

And listening to all the things they would do if they had these things, Wang Lung heard only of how ...

The narrator refers to a character as "an oily scoundrel whose hands were heavy with the money that ...

Out of the woman's great brown breast the milk gushed forth for the child, milk as white as snow, an...

He saw on the paper a picture of a man, white-skinned, who hung upon a crosspiece of wood. The man w...

And to him war was a thing like earth and sky and water and why it was no one knew but only that it ...

This was his mind, a storehouse, a computer programmed to life, minute by minute, hour by hour, day ...

Of course imagination is the beginning of creation. Without imagination there can be no creation.

Wandering is never waste, dear boy,' he said. 'While you wander you will find much to wonder about, ...

There was no need to hurry that future—yet the length of his own youth pressed upon him. Whatever he...

Crowds moved wherever he went, across the bridge to Manhattan, in New York, wherever he went, life f...

For he came to perceive that since people were his study, his teachers, the objects through which he...

Whatever came to him was good. It was life. It was knowledge.

To take each day as a separate page, to be read carefully, savoring all of the details, this is best...

Fear alone makes man weak. If you are afraid, your hands tremble, your feet falter, and your brain c...

Just as he lived with them alive, he will live with them dead. Someday he will accept their death as...

Yes, she now believed that when her body died, her soul would go on. Gods she did not worship, and f...

A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated — and turned out to grass.

Men and women should own the world as a mutual possession.

Fate is unalterable only in the sense that given a cause, a certain result must follow, but no cause...

The mistakes of history bring relentless reprisals.

Somehow I had learned from Thoreau, who doubtless learned it from Confucius, that if a man comes to ...

An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls — even satin-lined, diamond-s...

Praise out of season or tactlessly bestowed can freeze the heart as much as blame.

All things are possible until they are proved impossible-and even the impossible may only be so as o...

To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.

Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life ...

This anxiety to keep his father from anger was wearisome to him.

The young do not know enough to be prudent and therefore they attempt the impossible-and achieve it...

We must have hope or starve to death.

In this unbelievable universe in which we live there are no absolutes. Even parallel lines reachin...

When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry ...

All things are possible until they are proved impossible and even the impossible may only be so, as ...

When hope is taken away from the people moral degeneration follows swiftly after.

If you start to revise before you've reached the end, you're likely to begin dawdling with the revis...

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is...

All things are possible until they are proven impossible.

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they exp...

It is better not to say "lend." There is only giving.

Truth is always exciting. Speak it then life is dull without it.