409 Quotes by Pearl S. Buck

It is easy to destroy but hard to create. Remember that, when you want to destroy something.” The.

The best thing in the world for each of us is that which we can best do, because it gives us the feeling of being useful. That’s happiness.

It was strange how these poems came to him nowadays, the distillation of his private emotions, of his disillusionment, of his solitude, of his yearning for a future in which, nevertheless, he could not believe.

From the stars,” she thought, “doubtless all things are seen.

Well I know I am ugly and cannot be loved –.

And roots, if they are to bear fruits, must be kept well in the soil of the land.

They were prisoners, trapped by old ways of life, jailed within the imperial palace. He was no more free than she was. Yet only she could do what she would. If she said she would be Empress, then none could hold her back.

I don’t know, Pierce. But I do know that when men are frightened and discontented they gather around any man who is not afraid.

As life has proved, it is true that a woman’s body is more important than her mind. She alone can create new human creatures. Were it not for her, the race of man would cease to exist. Into her body, as into a chalice, Heaven has put this gift. Her body therefore is inexpressibly precious to man. He is not fulfilled if she does not create. His is the seed, but she alone can bring it to flower and fruit in another being like himself.