People Quotes by John Steinbeck · Page 2

The proofs that God does not exist are very strong, but in lots of people they are not as strong as the…

— John Steinbeck

When I was very young and the urge to be someplace else was on me, I was assured by mature people that…

— John Steinbeck

Some people there are who, being grown; forget the horrible task of learning to read. It is perhaps the greatest single effort…

— John Steinbeck

The theater is the only institution in the world which has been dying for four thousand years and has never succumbed. It…

— John Steinbeck

I dislike helplessness in other people and in myself, and this is by far my greatest fear of illness.

— John Steinbeck

There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.

— John Steinbeck

Our people are good people; our people are kind people. Pray God some day kind people won't all be poor.

— John Steinbeck

A day, a livelong day, is not one thing but many. It changes not only in growing light toward zenith and decline…

— John Steinbeck

“If you're in trouble or hurt or need–go to poor people. They're the only ones that'll help–the only ones.”

— John Steinbeck

As with many people, Charles, who could not talk, wrote with fullness. He set down his loneliness and his perplexities, and he…

— John Steinbeck

I know people who are so immersed in road maps that they never see the countryside they pass through, and others who,…

— John Steinbeck

The utter insanity of living in a place like this doesn't occur to the 9,000,000 people who inhabit New York. Except for…

— John Steinbeck

When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity…

— John Steinbeck

Maybe ever'body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.

— John Steinbeck

For the most part people are not curious except about themselves.

— John Steinbeck

People who are most afraid of their dreams convince themselves they don't dream at all.

— John Steinbeck

Strange how one person can saturate a room with vitality, with excitement. Then there are others, and this dame was one of…

— John Steinbeck

The people in flight from the terror behind-strange things happen to them, some bitterly cruel and some so beautiful that the faith…

— John Steinbeck

Some days are born ugly. From the very first light they are no damn good what ever the weather, and everbody knows…

— John Steinbeck

They must be real people. And this means that every word in every line of speech must be accurate and full of…

— John Steinbeck

In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

— John Steinbeck

You're getting well,' Samuel said. 'Some people think it's an insult to the glory of their sickness to get well. But the…

— John Steinbeck

It’s all fine to say, “Time will heal everything, this too shall pass away. People will forget”—and things like that when you…

— John Steinbeck

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

— John Steinbeck

Why, Tom - us people will go on livin' when all them people is gone. Why, Tom, we're the people that live.…

— John Steinbeck