“Suddenly he knew joy and sorrow felted into one fabric. Courage and fear were one thing too. He found that he had… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“I always found in myself a dread of west and love of east. Where I ever got such an idea I cannot… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“...and the break would never come as long as fear can turn to wrath.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
...men in fear and hunger destroy their stomachs in the fight to secure certain food, where men hungering for love destroy everything… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“There is no knowing how or why dread comes on a parent. Of course, many times apprehension arises when there is no… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Ma was heavy, but not fat; thick with child-bearing and work. She wore a loose Mother Hubbard of gray cloth in which… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Oh, we can populate the dark with horrors, even we who think ourselves informed and sure, believing nothing we cannot measure or… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I dislike helplessness in other people and in myself, and this is by far my greatest fear of illness. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
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
People who are most afraid of their dreams convince themselves they don't dream at all. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I suffer as always from the fear of putting down the first line. It is amazing the terrors, the magics, the prayers,… — 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
“All this is a preface to the fear and uncertainties which clamber over a man so that in his silly work he… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
She seemed to know, to accept, to welcome her position, the citadel of the family, the strong place that could not be… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
...men in fear and hunger destroy their stomachs in the fight to secure certain food, where men hungering for love destroy everything… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
A kind of light spread out from her. And everything changed color. And the world opened out. And a day was good… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I suffer as always from the fear of putting down the first line. It is amazing the terrors, the magics, the prayers,… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
For many years we have suckled on fear and fear alone, and there is no good product of fear. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“He clothed his motives in the names of virtue, and I have wondered whether he ever knew that no gift will ever… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“She had learned fear now and her mind sniffed about like a rat looking for an escape.” — 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 Image
Prayer never brought in no side-meat. Takes a shoat to bring in pork. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“And now submarines are armed with mass murder, our silly, only way of deterring mass murder.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
