Life Quotes by John Steinbeck · Page 2

“Who doesn't like to be a center for concern? A kind of second childhood falls on so many men. They trade their…

— John Steinbeck

It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.

— John Steinbeck

“I seen turtles all my life. They’re always goin’ someplace. They always seem to want to get there.”

— John Steinbeck

A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean question:…

— John Steinbeck

“I wonder how many people I have looked at all my life and never really seen.”

— John Steinbeck

I know a little bit about a great many things and not enough about any one to make a living in these…

— John Steinbeck

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

— John Steinbeck

A man may have lived all of his life in the gray, and the land and trees of him dark and somber.…

— John Steinbeck

“Thy life is not thine own to govern, Danny, for it controls other lives. See how thy friends suffer! Spring to life,…

— John Steinbeck

Muscles aching to work, minds aching to create - this is man.

— John Steinbeck

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

— John Steinbeck

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

— John Steinbeck

“In his middle life, at about the time such things were known about, it was discovered that, he had pernicious anemia. It…

— John Steinbeck

life passes by in a wink so try to never miss a moment of it

— John Steinbeck

One man was so mad at me that he ended his letter Beware. You will never get out of this world alive.

— John Steinbeck

“Tom , the third son, was most like his father. He was born in fury and he lived in lightning.Tom came headlong…

— John Steinbeck

No one knows how greatness comes to a man. It may lie in his blackness, sleeping, or it may lance into him…

— John Steinbeck

I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one. . . . Humans are caught—in their lives, in…

— John Steinbeck

I think of my life as a kind of music, not always good music but still having form and melody.

— John Steinbeck

A man without words is a man without thought.

— John Steinbeck

We, or at least I, can have no conception of human life and human thought in a hundred years or fifty years.…

— John Steinbeck

Why do men like me want sons? he wondered. It must be because they hope in their poor beaten souls that these…

— John Steinbeck

“One day Samuel strained his back lifting a bale of hay, and it hurt his feelings more than his back, for he…

— John Steinbeck

“It was said that its existence protected decent women. An unmarried man could go to one of these houses and evacuate the…

— John Steinbeck

We are lonesome animals. We spend all life trying to be less lonesome.

— John Steinbeck