Time Quotes by John Steinbeck

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

— John Steinbeck

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

— John Steinbeck

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

— John Steinbeck

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

— John Steinbeck

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

— John Steinbeck

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

— John Steinbeck

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

— John Steinbeck

“Eventlessness has no post to drape duration on.”

— John Steinbeck

The misery stayed, not thought about but aching away, and sometimes I would have to ask myself, Why do I ache? Men…

— John Steinbeck

“Somehow they felt they were living in a moment when history pauses and takes stock and changes course.”

— 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

And this you can know- fear the time when Manself will not suffer and die for a concept, for this one quality…

— 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

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

— 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

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

— John Steinbeck

“Fear the time when the bombs stop falling while the bombers live - for every bomb is proof that the spirit has…

— John Steinbeck

“A time splashed with interest, wounded with tragedy, crevassed with joy—that's the time that seems long in the memory. And this is…

— John Steinbeck

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…

— John Steinbeck

The bank - the monster has to have profits all the time. It can't wait. It'll die. No, taxes go on. When…

— John Steinbeck

It is a time of quiet joy, the sunny morning. When the glittery dew is on the mallow weeds, each leaf holds…

— John Steinbeck

“For it is not true that an uneventful time in the past is remembered as fast. On the contrary, it takes the…

— John Steinbeck

“We have in past been forced into reluctant change by weather, calamity, and plague. Now the pressure comes from our biologic success…

— 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

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

— 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

“When our food and clothing and housing all are born in the complication of mass production, mass method is bound to get…

— John Steinbeck

“Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased. I remember a man in Salinas who in his…

— John Steinbeck

'I know,' said Winter, 'but they don't know.' And he went on with a thought he had been having. 'A time-minded people,'…

— 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

“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

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

— 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

Time is the only critic without ambition.

— John Steinbeck

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

— John Steinbeck

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

— John Steinbeck