409 Quotes by Pearl S. Buck

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

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

To know what one can have and to do with it, being prepared for no more, is the basis of equilibrium.

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

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.

A woman's mind is not an instrument apart from her other being. She does not separate herself as man does, now flesh, now mind, now heart. She is there as one, a unity complete and unified.

There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream -- whatever that dream might be.

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.

An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls-even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls-without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell.