Zora Neale Hurston Quotes

The fountain of youth with the youthful young musician is one meaning, and the fountain of youth with the youthful energy of the leader is another meaning.

the much-sought prize of eternal youth Is just arrested growth.

To hold an unchanging youth is to reach at the end, the vision with which one started.

To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I ey'd, Such seems your beauty still.

Give lettered pomp to teeth of Time, So "Bonnie Doon" but tarry; Blot out the epic's stately rhyme, But spare his "Highland Mary!"

To desire immortality for the individual is really the same as wanting to perpetuate an error forever.

in the United States ... given the cult of eternal youth, age is ignored unless it can be sentimentalized.

I'm going to live forever, or die trying !

Nothing endures except change; nothing is constant except death. Every heartbeat wounds us, and life would be an eternal bleeding to death, were it not for literature. It grants us what nature does not: a golden time that doesn't rust, a springtime that never wilts, cloudless happiness and eternal youth. [my translation]

When I was Younger, I wanted to be something.Now, I just want to be younger.

Mount the stallion of love and do not fear the path, love’s stallion knows the way exactly. With one leap, Love’s horse will carry you home.

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution

Through Love and through Beauty, we achieve immortality.

Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age, and to imagine right up to the brink of death that life is only beginning. I think that is the only way to keep adding to one's talent, and one's inner happiness.

Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.

I resemble the poplar,--that tree which, even when old, still looks young.

Sex ages us. Priests are boyish, spinsters stay black-haired until after fifty. We others, the demon rots us out.

A thing of beauty is a boy forever.

We still are looking for someone who knows the secret of immortality. Only God is immortal; we are not.

You're only young once, they say, but doesn't it go on for a long time? More years than you can bear.

I am asked how to remain young, and I say 'Never, never work.' And that, of course, is the secret of it.

Elegance does not catch the eye. It stays in memory.

There's a remedy for everything except death.