409 Quotes by Pearl S. Buck

A person’s heart withers if it does not answer another heart.

The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members.

Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.

One faces the future with one’s past.

I am comforted by life’s stability, by earth’s unchangeableness. What has seemed new and frightening assumes its place in the unfolding of knowledge. It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.

Love can never be a sin. It can be only a blessing. Even if you’re not loved in return – though I can’t imagine that – to love is a proof of life – indeed, it’s the only proof, for once you can’t love another human being, you’re not alive.

When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place.

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

Now it has been said from ancient times that all women who weep may be divided into three sorts. There are those who lift up their voices and their tears flow and this may be called crying; there are those who utter loud lamentations but whose tears do not flow and this may be called howling; there are those whose tears flow but who utter no sound and this may be called weeping.