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Top 30 Jean Toomer Quotes (2025 Update)

Jean Toomer Quote: “People mistake their limitations for high standards.”

1. “People mistake their limitations for high standards.”

— Jean Toomer

Jean Toomer Quote: “To understand a new idea, break an old habit.”

2. “To understand a new idea, break an old habit.”

— Jean Toomer

Jean Toomer Quote: “The only way to seek God is to seek God first. Deny the nayward, affirm the yeaward, be true to those stirrings and motions which He starts in us, refuse priority to all else, and be faithful to the sacred.”

3. “The only way to seek God is to seek God first. Deny the nayward, affirm the yeaward, be true to those stirrings and motions which He starts in us, refuse priority to all else, and be faithful to the sacred.”

— Jean Toomer

Jean Toomer Quote: “We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.”

4. “We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.”

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Jean Toomer Quote: “There is no such thing as happiness. Life bends joy and pain, beauty and ugliness, in such a way that no one may isolate them. No one should want to. Perfect joy, or perfect pain, with no contrasting element to define them, would mean a monotony of consciousness, would mean death.”

5. “There is no such thing as happiness. Life bends joy and pain, beauty and ugliness, in such a way that no one may isolate them. No one should want to. Perfect joy, or perfect pain, with no contrasting element to define them, would mean a monotony of consciousness, would mean death.”

— Jean Toomer

Jean Toomer Quote: “We start with gifts. Merit comes from what we make of them.”

6. “We start with gifts. Merit comes from what we make of them.”

— Jean Toomer

Jean Toomer Quote: “We do not posses imagination enough to sense what we are missing.”

7. “We do not posses imagination enough to sense what we are missing.”

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Jean Toomer Quote: “Fear is a noose that binds until it strangles.”

8. “Fear is a noose that binds until it strangles.”

— Jean Toomer

Jean Toomer Quote: “Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.”

9. “Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.”

— Jean Toomer

Jean Toomer Quote: “Most novices picture themselves as masters – and are content with the picture. This is why there are so few masters.”

10. “Most novices picture themselves as masters – and are content with the picture. This is why there are so few masters.”

— Jean Toomer

Jean Toomer Quote: “The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing.”

11. “The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing.”

— Jean Toomer

Jean Toomer Quote: “Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own.”

12. “Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own.”

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Jean Toomer Quote: “Men are apt to idolize or fear that which they cannot understand, especially if it be a woman.”

13. “Men are apt to idolize or fear that which they cannot understand, especially if it be a woman.”

— Jean Toomer

Jean Toomer Quote: “Whats beauty anyway but ugliness if it hurts you?”

14. “Whats beauty anyway but ugliness if it hurts you?”

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Jean Toomer Quote: “There is no such thing as happiness. Life bends joy and pain, beauty and ugliness, in such a way that no one may isolate them.”

15. “There is no such thing as happiness. Life bends joy and pain, beauty and ugliness, in such a way that no one may isolate them.”

— Jean Toomer

Jean Toomer Quote: “No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight.”

16. “No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight.”

— Jean Toomer

17. “If you have heard a Jewish cantor sing, if he has touched you and made your own sorrow seem trivial when compared with his, you will know my feeling when I follow the curves of her profile, like mobile rivers, to their common delta.”

— Jean Toomer

Jean Toomer Quote: “We never know we are beings till we love. And then it is we know the powers and potentialities of human existence.”

18. “We never know we are beings till we love. And then it is we know the powers and potentialities of human existence.”

— Jean Toomer

Jean Toomer Quote: “Thank everyone who calls out your faults, your anger, your impatience, your egotism; do this consciously, voluntarily.”

19. “Thank everyone who calls out your faults, your anger, your impatience, your egotism; do this consciously, voluntarily.”

— Jean Toomer

Jean Toomer Quote: “It takes a well-spent lifetime, and perhaps more, to crystalize in us that for which we exist.”

20. “It takes a well-spent lifetime, and perhaps more, to crystalize in us that for which we exist.”

— Jean Toomer

Jean Toomer Quote: “In a sick world, it is the first duty of the artist to get well.”

21. “In a sick world, it is the first duty of the artist to get well.”

— Jean Toomer

Jean Toomer Quote: “Dusk, suggesting the almost imperceptible posession of giant trees, settled with a purple haze about the cane. I felt strange, as I always do in Georgia, particularly at dusk. I felt that things unseen to men were tangibly immediate. It would not have surprised me had I had a vision.”

22. “Dusk, suggesting the almost imperceptible posession of giant trees, settled with a purple haze about the cane. I felt strange, as I always do in Georgia, particularly at dusk. I felt that things unseen to men were tangibly immediate. It would not have surprised me had I had a vision.”

— Jean Toomer

Jean Toomer Quote: “Her body was tortured with something it could not let out.”

23. “Her body was tortured with something it could not let out.”

— Jean Toomer

Jean Toomer Quote: “One may receive the information but miss the teaching.”

24. “One may receive the information but miss the teaching.”

— Jean Toomer

Jean Toomer Quote: “I am not less poet; I am more conscious of all that I am, am not, and might become.”

25. “I am not less poet; I am more conscious of all that I am, am not, and might become.”

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Jean Toomer Quote: “Talk about it only enough to do it. Dream about it only enough to feel it. Think about it only enough to understand it. Contemplate it only enough to be it.”

26. “Talk about it only enough to do it. Dream about it only enough to feel it. Think about it only enough to understand it. Contemplate it only enough to be it.”

— Jean Toomer

Jean Toomer Quote: “Her own glowing is too rich a thing to let her feel the slimness of his diluted passion.”

27. “Her own glowing is too rich a thing to let her feel the slimness of his diluted passion.”

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Jean Toomer Quote: “Once a man has tasted creative action, then thereafter, no matter how safely he schools himself in patience, he is restive, acutely dissatisfied with anything else. He becomes as a lover to whom abstinence is intolerable.”

28. “Once a man has tasted creative action, then thereafter, no matter how safely he schools himself in patience, he is restive, acutely dissatisfied with anything else. He becomes as a lover to whom abstinence is intolerable.”

— Jean Toomer

Jean Toomer Quote: “Whatever I believed, I did; I did with my whole heart and mind as far as possible to do so...”

29. “Whatever I believed, I did; I did with my whole heart and mind as far as possible to do so...”

— Jean Toomer

Jean Toomer Quote: “You are the most sleepiest man I ever seed.”

30. “You are the most sleepiest man I ever seed.”

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Jean Toomer Quote: “Her mind is a pink mesh-bag filled with baby toes.”

31. “Her mind is a pink mesh-bag filled with baby toes.”

— Jean Toomer

Jean Toomer Quote: “Men had always wanted her, this Karintha, even as a child, Karintha carrying beauty, perfect as dusk when the sun goes down.”

32. “Men had always wanted her, this Karintha, even as a child, Karintha carrying beauty, perfect as dusk when the sun goes down.”

— Jean Toomer

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