Quotes from Pearl S. Buck

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.

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

Life is the wonder with which we are all infused.

If there is no other life, then this one has been enough to make it worth being born myself...a human being.

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.

Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and the life upon it, that I cannot think of heaven and the angels.

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

Every era of renaissance has come out of new freedoms for peoples. The coming renaissance will be greater than any in human history, for this time all the peoples of the earth will share in it.

Most mothers kiss and scold together.

On this earth, though far and near, without love, there's only fear.

Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.

But what happens when her beauty is torn from her like a cover from a book? Will he care to read her then, although her pages speak of nothing but love for him?

Can such stiff and formal moldings as words capture the spirit-essence of love?

Science and religion, religion and science, put it as it may, they are the two sides of the same glass, through which we see darkly until these two focus together, reveal the truth.

It is worse than folly... not to recognize the truth, for in it lies the tinder for tomorrow.

Nothing is menial where there is love.

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

The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.

doing and being are very closely tied together, and unless you are doing what you secretly want to do, you aren't able to be the sort of person you want to be.

The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between men and women.

I am mentally bifocal.

One faces the future with one's past.

Some of the biggest failures I ever had were successes.

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