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Pearl S. Buck Quotes

Pearl S. Buck

American novelist [,also known by her Chinese name 'Sai Zhenzhu' Nobel Prize in literature in 1938]

Nationality: American
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Type: Novelist
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Birth: 1892-1973
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Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted.
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Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep - he hath awakened from the dream of life - 'Tis we, who lost in stormy visions, keep with phantoms an unprofitable strife.
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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.
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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, - but it returneth.
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Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality.
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Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race. As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in despair, so an unsuccessful author turns critic.
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How wonderful is death! Death and his brother sleep.
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He has outsoared the shadow of our night; envy and calumny and hate and pain, and that unrest which men miscall delight, can touch him not and torture not again; from the contagion of the world's slow stain, he is secure.
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Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.
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Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore, and called it gold: before whose image bow the vulgar great, the vainly rich, the miserable proud, the mob of peasants, nobles, priests, and kings, and wi
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Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.
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Their errors have been weighed and found to have been dust in the balance; if their sins were as scarlet, they are now white as snow: they have been washed in the blood of the mediator and the redeemer, Time.
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The gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.
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Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker.
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A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.
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Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.
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The soul's joy lies in doing.
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Cold hopes swarm like worms within our living clay.
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The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
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There is no real wealth but the labor of man.
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To be omnipotent but friendless is to reign.
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All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.
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Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry.
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Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
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Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.
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I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity.
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The Galilean is not a favorite of mine. So far from owing him any thanks for his favor, I cannot avoid confessing that I owe a secret grudge to his carpentership.
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Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.
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There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!
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January gray is here, like a sexton by her grave; February bears the bier, march with grief doth howl and rave, and April weeps - but, O ye hours! Follow with May's fairest flowers.
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O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
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All of us, who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth. - Shelley, Percy Bysshe
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The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
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War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, The lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.
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The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism; and luxury is the forerunner of a barbarism scarcely capable of cure.
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