Pearl S. Buck

Pearl S. Buck

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The American writer Pearl S. Buck is someone whose pithy observations have become part of everyday conversation. Beyond The Good Earth, the best-selling novel in the United States in 1931 and 1932, which won her the Pulitzer Prize in 1932, Pearl S. Buck proved equally skilled at capturing ideas in a sentence or two. Browse 37 quotes by Pearl S. Buck that cover ground from Hope, Work, Alone, Truth, and Strength. Here is a taste of their wisdom: "Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then life is dull without it."

“A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.”

— Pearl S. Buck

Change

All Quotes by Pearl S. Buck

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

— Pearl S. Buck

Work

“It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.”

— Pearl S. Buck

Religion

“The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.”

— Pearl S. Buck

Power

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

— Pearl S. Buck

Death

“Love alone could waken love.”

— Pearl S. Buck

Alone

“Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.”

— Pearl S. Buck

Happiness

“The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.”

— Pearl S. Buck

Alone

“One faces the future with one's past.”

— Pearl S. Buck

Future

“Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.”

— Pearl S. Buck

Death

“I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.”

— Pearl S. Buck

Faith

“Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.”

— Pearl S. Buck

Beauty

“Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.”

— Pearl S. Buck

Fear

“Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.”

— Pearl S. Buck

Communication

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

— Pearl S. Buck

Marriage

“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

Age

“None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.”

— Pearl S. Buck

Freedom

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

— Pearl S. Buck

Work

“A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.”

— Pearl S. Buck

Change

“In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.”

— Pearl S. Buck

Faith

“Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then life is dull without it.”

— Pearl S. Buck

Truth