John Steinbeck Quotes About Dying

Quotes about: Dying

• The theater is the only institution in the world which has been dying for four thousand years and has never succumbed. It requires tough and devoted people to keep it alive.

  John Steinbeck

  Years, People, Dying

  John Steinbeck (2007). “Once There Was a War”, p.23, Penguin

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

  John Steinbeck

  Past, Greatness, People

  John Steinbeck (2003). “America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction”, p.318, Penguin

• When a man comes to die,
  no matter what his talents and influences and genius,
  if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him
  and his dying a cold horror.

  John Steinbeck

  Men, Dying, Genius

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.363, Penguin

• In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved. Indeed most of their vices are attempted short cuts to love. When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror.

  John Steinbeck

  Life, Cutting, Men

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.363, Penguin

• It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

  John Steinbeck

  Death, Two, Eden

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.363, Penguin

• A dying organism is often observed to be capable of extraordinary endurance and strength. .. When any living organism is attacked, its whole function seems to aim towards reproduction.

  John Steinbeck

  Inspirational, Endurance, Dying

  John Steinbeck (2009). “The Short Novels of John Steinbeck: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.131, Penguin

• I have no choice of living or dying, you see, sir--but I do have a choice of how I do it. If I tell them not to fight, they will be sorry, but they will fight. If I tell them to fight, they will be glad, and I who am not a very brave man will have made them a little braver.

  John Steinbeck

  Sorry, Fighting, Men

  John Steinbeck (2001). “Novels, 1942-1952”

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