John Steinbeck Quotes About Feelings

Quotes about: Feelings

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  It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.

  John Steinbeck

  Love, Wisdom, Appreciation

  John Steinbeck (1963). “The short novels of John Steinbeck: Tortilla Flat, The red pony, Of mice and men, The moon is down, Cannery Row, The pearl”

• “Do you take pride in your hurt?” Samuel asked. “Does it make you seem large and tragic?” “I don't know.” “Well, think about it. Maybe you're playing a part on a great stage with only yourself as audience.”

  John Steinbeck

  Hurt, Lying, Pride

  "East of Eden".

• The redwoods, once seen, leave a mark or create a vision that stays with you always. No one has ever successfully painted or photographed a redwood tree. The feeling they produce is not transferable. From them comes silence and awe. It's not only their unbelievable stature, nor the color which seems to shift and vary under your eyes, no, they are not like any trees we know, they are ambassadors from another time.

  John Steinbeck

  Eye, Color, Silence

• A writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star sending signals. He isn't telling or teaching or ordering. Rather he seeks to establish a relationship of meaning, of feeling, of observing. We are lonesome animals. We spend all life trying to be less lonesome.

  John Steinbeck

  Stars, Loneliness, Teaching

  John Steinbeck (1989). “Steinbeck: A Life in Letters”, p.441, Penguin

• This is beyond understanding." said the king. "You are the wisest man alive. You know what is preparing. Why do you not make a plan to save yourself?" And Merlin said quietly, "Because I am wise. In the combat between wisdom and feeling, wisdom never wins.

  John Steinbeck

  Wise, Kings, Winning

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.85, Penguin

• He can kill anything for need but he could not even hurt a feeling for pleasure.

  John Steinbeck

  Hurt, Feelings, Needs

  John Steinbeck (1993). “Cannery Row”, p.23, Penguin

• The proofs that God does not exist are very strong, but in lots of people they are not as strong as the feeling that He does.

  John Steinbeck

  Strong, People, Feelings

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.64, Penguin

• The words are meaningless except in terms of feeling. Does anyone act as the result of thought or does feeling stimulate action and sometimes thought implement it.

  John Steinbeck

  Feelings, Doe, Action

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.107, Penguin

• I think there must have been some other girl printed somewhere in his heart, for he was a man of love and his wife was not a woman to show her feelings.

  John Steinbeck

  Girl, Heart, Men

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

• No one has ever successfully painted or photographed a redwood tree. The feeling they produce is not transferable. From them comes silence and awe

  John Steinbeck

  Silence, Tree, Feelings

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.105, Penguin

• It sometimes happens that what you feel is not returned for one reason or another-but that does not make your feeling less valuable and good.

  John Steinbeck

  Feelings, Doe, Sometimes

  John Steinbeck (1989). “Steinbeck: A Life in Letters”, p.506, Penguin

• Girls have a way of knowing or feeling what you feel, but they usually like to hear it also.

  John Steinbeck

  Girl, Knowing, Feelings

• For the first time I am working on a book that is not limited and that will take every bit of experience and thought and feeling that I have.

  John Steinbeck

  Book, Feelings, Firsts

  John Steinbeck (1990). “Working Days: The Journals of The Grapes of Wrath”, p.26, Penguin

• It is strange how a man believes he can think better in a special place. I have such a place, have always had it, but I know it isn't thinking I do there, but feeling and experiencing and remembering. It's a safety place. Everyone must have one, although I never heard a man tell of it.

  John Steinbeck

  Believe, Men, Thinking

  "The Winter of Our Discontent". Book by John Steinbeck. Part One, Chapter III, 1961.

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