Death Quotes by John Steinbeck

I have wondered why is it that some people are less affected and torn by the verities of life and death that…

— John Steinbeck

Fearful and unprepared, we have assumed lordship over the life or death of the whole world, of all living things.

— John Steinbeck

“...so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.”

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“Nobody has the right to remove any single experience from another. Life and death are promised. We have a right to pain.”

— John Steinbeck

I don’t mind getting smacked on the chin. I just don’t want to get nibbled to death. There’s a difference.

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“I don’t aim to starve to death before I kill the man that’s starving me.”

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“I have no choice of living or dying, you see, sir, but I do have a choice of how I do it.”

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“Some men ease themselves like setting hens into the nest of death.”

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“The wedding was in Monterey, a sombre boding ceremony in a little Protestant chapel. The church had so often seen two ripe…

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“To finish is a sadness to a writer- a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. The…

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“A dying organism is often observed to be capable of extraordinary endurance and strength. ... When any living organism is attacked, its…

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When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influences and genius, if he dies unloved his life must…

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“It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our…

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“Una’s death struck Samuel like a silent earthquake. He said no brave and reassuring words, he simply sat alone and rocked himself.”

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A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatness and half remembered glory

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“Laughter comes later, like wisdom teeth, and laughter at yourself comes last of all in a mad race with death, and sometimes…

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“He went to his own dark house and lighted the lamps and set fire in the stove. The clock wound by Elizabeth…

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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…

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“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…

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“Adam said, “Just thinking.” And he was thinking with amazement, Why, I’m not afraid of my brother! I used to be scared…

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“Can you hear me, Father? Can you understand me?” The eyes did not change or move. “I did it,” Cal cried. “I’m…

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Life cannot be cut off quickly. One cannot be dead until the things he changed are dead. His effect is the only…

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“Curley's wife lay with a half-covering of yellow hay. And the meanness and the plannings and the discontent and the ache for…

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“Samuel may have thought and played and philosophized about death, hut he did not really believe in it. His world did not…

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“In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved.…

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“A writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star sending signals. He isn't telling, or teaching, or ordering.…

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“In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved.…

— John Steinbeck

“Death is a personal matter, arousing sorrow, despair, fervor, or dry-hearted philosophy. Funerals, on the other hand, are social functions. Imagine going…

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“I remember clearly the deaths of three men. One was the richest man of the century, who, having clawed his way to…

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“I think perhaps Liza accepted the world as she accepted the Bible, with all of its paradoxes and its reverses. She did…

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“Pa said, "Won't you say a few words? Ain't none of our folks ever been buried without a few words." Connie led…

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To finish is sadness to a writer — a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. But…

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“We must get out of the banged-up century, some said, out of this cheating, murderous century of riot and secret death, of…

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“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