Fearful and unprepared, we have assumed lordship over the life or death of the whole world, of all living things. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I have wondered why is it that some people are less affected and torn by the verities of life and death that… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“I don’t aim to starve to death before I kill the man that’s starving me.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I don’t mind getting smacked on the chin. I just don’t want to get nibbled to death. There’s a difference. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Some men ease themselves like setting hens into the nest of death.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“I have no choice of living or dying, you see, sir, but I do have a choice of how I do it.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Nobody has the right to remove any single experience from another. Life and death are promised. We have a right to pain.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“A dying organism is often observed to be capable of extraordinary endurance and strength. ... When any living organism is attacked, its… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“To finish is a sadness to a writer- a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. The… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influences and genius, if he dies unloved his life must… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“The wedding was in Monterey, a sombre boding ceremony in a little Protestant chapel. The church had so often seen two ripe… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“We must get out of the banged-up century, some said, out of this cheating, murderous century of riot and secret death, of… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Laughter comes later, like wisdom teeth, and laughter at yourself comes last of all in a mad race with death, and sometimes… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
To finish is sadness to a writer — a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. But… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“I knew long ago and rediscovered that the best way to attract attention,help,and conversation is to be lost.A man who seeing his… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Adam said, “Just thinking.” And he was thinking with amazement, Why, I’m not afraid of my brother! I used to be scared… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Can you hear me, Father? Can you understand me?” The eyes did not change or move. “I did it,” Cal cried. “I’m… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Do you think it's funny to be so serious when I'm not even out of high school?' she asked. 'I don't see… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“He went to his own dark house and lighted the lamps and set fire in the stove. The clock wound by Elizabeth… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Samuel may have thought and played and philosophized about death, hut he did not really believe in it. His world did not… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Curley's wife lay with a half-covering of yellow hay. And the meanness and the plannings and the discontent and the ache for… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Life cannot be cut off quickly. One cannot be dead until the things he changed are dead. His effect is the only… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved.… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Death is a personal matter, arousing sorrow, despair, fervor, or dry-hearted philosophy. Funerals, on the other hand, are social functions. Imagine going… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved.… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“A writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star sending signals. He isn't telling, or teaching, or ordering.… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“I remember clearly the deaths of three men. One was the richest man of the century, who, having clawed his way to… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Pa said, "Won't you say a few words? Ain't none of our folks ever been buried without a few words." Connie led… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“I think perhaps Liza accepted the world as she accepted the Bible, with all of its paradoxes and its reverses. She did… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Casy said solemnly, "This here ol' man jus' lived a life an' just died out of it. I don't know whether he… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Una’s death struck Samuel like a silent earthquake. He said no brave and reassuring words, he simply sat alone and rocked himself.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatness and half remembered glory — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not… — John Steinbeck Copy Share
“And now submarines are armed with mass murder, our silly, only way of deterring mass murder.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share
“I’d think there are degrees of greatness,” Adam said. “I don’t think so,” said Samuel. “That would be like saying there is a little… — John Steinbeck Copy Share
“He was forever inventing a new way of doing an old thing and doing it better and quicker, but he never in his whole… — John Steinbeck Copy Share
“You come back a changed man. Samuel, you don’t change him. He changes you. I can see the look of him in your face.”… — John Steinbeck Copy Share
I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments — John Steinbeck Copy Share
At about 10 o'clock in the morning the sun threw a bright dust-laden bar through one of the side windows and in and out… — John Steinbeck Copy Share
I have noticed that there is no dissatisfaction like that of the rich. Feed a man, clothe him, put him in a good house,… — John Steinbeck Copy Share
Sometimes, a lie is told in kindness. I don't believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the… — John Steinbeck Copy Share
“Suddenly he knew joy and sorrow felted into one fabric. Courage and fear were one thing too. He found that he had started to… — John Steinbeck Copy Share
I am writing this from what we Americans call Yurrp. In Yurrp writers are taken as seriously as Lana Turner's legs are in America… — John Steinbeck Copy Share
I write because I like to write. I find joy in the texture and tone and rhythm of words. It is a satisfaction like… — John Steinbeck Copy Share
