Time Quotes by John Steinbeck

Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.

— John Steinbeck

Humanity has been passing through a gray and desolate time of confusion.

— John Steinbeck

How can we live without our lives? How will we know it's us without our past?

— John Steinbeck

Time is the only critic without ambition.

— John Steinbeck

“Eventlessness has no post to drape duration on.”

— John Steinbeck

Maybe not having time to think is not having the wish to think.

— John Steinbeck

“War did not make a killer of me, although for a time I killed men.”

— John Steinbeck

One must withdraw for a time from life in order to set down that picture.

— John Steinbeck

It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge intime, toprotest againstchange, particularlychangefor the better.

— John Steinbeck

“Why, Jesus Christ, Ma, they comes a time when the on'y way a fella can keep his decency is by takin' a…

— John Steinbeck

“It's one of the great fallacies, it seems to me, that time gives much of anything but years and sadness to man.”

— John Steinbeck

“Through my own efforts, I am lost most of the time without any help from anyone.”

— John Steinbeck

Eventlessness has no posts to drape duration on. From nothing to nothing is no time at all.

— John Steinbeck

Like most modern people, I don't believe in prophecy or magic and then spend half my time practicing it.

— John Steinbeck

“He always tell what it will be like someday." "Well, a man's mind can't stay in time the way his body does.”

— John Steinbeck

“At such a time it seems natural and good to me to ask myself these questions. What do I believe in? What…

— John Steinbeck

I remember my childhood names for grasses and secret flowers. I remember where a toad may live and what time the birds…

— John Steinbeck

“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

“They’s a time of change, an’ when that comes, dyin’ is a piece of all dyin’, and bearin’ is a piece of…

— John Steinbeck

“Adam’s mother ran the farm, bore Adam, and still had time to embrace a primitive theosophy. She felt that her husband would…

— John Steinbeck

“We now face the danger, which in the past has been the most destructive to thehumans: Success, plenty, comfort and ever-increasing leisure.…

— John Steinbeck

“When two events have something in common, in their natures or in time or place, we leap happily to the conclusion that…

— John Steinbeck

But you can't start. Only a baby can start. You and me - why, we're all that's been. The anger of a…

— John Steinbeck

There are monstrous changes taking place in the world, forces shaping a future whose face we do not know. Some of these…

— John Steinbeck

“The reverse is also true: many a trip continues long after movement in time and space has ceased. I remember a man…

— John Steinbeck

“There are monstrous changes taking place in the world, forces shaping a future whose face we do not know. Some of these…

— John Steinbeck

“In the books of some memories it was the best time that ever sloshed over the world - the old time, the…

— John Steinbeck

“In our time mass or collective production has entered our economics, our politics, even our religion, so that some nations have substituted…

— John Steinbeck

“When the radio was on, music has stimulated memory of times and places, complete with characters and stage sets, memories so exact…

— John Steinbeck

“The old man slowly unwrapped the shining blade and let the lamplight slip along it for a moment. Then he wrapped it…

— John Steinbeck

“Yes, I’ll be glad.” And she said suddenly, “There are some times, Joseph, when the love for people is strong and warm…

— John Steinbeck

“The little engine roared and then stopped. Adam sat back for a moment, limp but proud, before he got out. The postmaster…

— John Steinbeck

“Once Ed said to me, "For a very long time I didn't like myself." It was not said in self-pity but simply…

— John Steinbeck

“For man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his…

— John Steinbeck

“Ah!' said Lee. 'I’ve wanted to tell you this for a long time. I even anticipated your questions and I am well…

— John Steinbeck

“It became his habit to creep out of bed even before his mother was awake, to slip into his clothes and to…

— John Steinbeck

“Now discontent nibbled at him - not painfully, but constantly. Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You…

— John Steinbeck

People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments...

— John Steinbeck

“There would come a time in our poverty when we needed a party.”

— John Steinbeck

Best thing is to get the words down every day. And it is time to start now.

— John Steinbeck