John Steinbeck Quotes About Hunger

Quotes about: Hunger

• I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one. . . . Humans are caught—in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness and generosity too—in a net of good and evil. . . . There is no other story. A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean questions: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well—or ill?

  John Steinbeck

  Life, Kindness, Believe

• How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can't scare him--he has known a fear beyond every other.

  John Steinbeck

  Children, Men, Wrath

  John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.190, Hamilton Books

• Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there's time, the Bastard Time.

  John Steinbeck

  Doe, Fields, Hunger

  John Steinbeck (2008). “Sweet Thursday”, p.59, Penguin

• Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass. Change may be announced by a small ache, so that you think you're catching cold. Or you may feel a faint disgust for something you loved yesterday. It may even take the form of a hunger that peanuts won't satisfy. Isn't overeating said to be one of the strongest symptoms of discontent. And isn't discontent the lever of change?

  John Steinbeck

  Men, Thinking, Yesterday

  John Steinbeck (2007). “Travels with Charley and Later Novels, 1947-1962”

• Must the hunger become anger and the anger fury before anything will be done?

  John Steinbeck

  Done, Hunger, Fury

  "America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction".

• I saw in their eyes something I was to see over and over in every part of the nation- a burning desire to go, to move, to get under way, anyplace, away from any Here. They spoke quietly of how they wanted to go someday, to move about, free and unanchored, not toward something but away from something. I saw this look and heard this yearning everywhere in every states I visited. Nearly every American hungers to move.

  John Steinbeck

  Moving, Eye, Desire

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.11, Penguin

• ...men in fear and hunger destroy their stomachs in the fight to secure certain food, where men hungering for love destroy everything lovable about them.

  John Steinbeck

  Fighting, Men, Bulls

  "The Short Novels of John Steinbeck".

• Some days are born ugly. From the very first light they are no damn good what ever the weather, and everbody knows it. No one knows what causes this, but on such a day people resist getting out of bed and set their heels against the day. When they are finally forced out by hunger or job they find that the day is just as lousy as they knew it would be.

  John Steinbeck

  Jobs, Light, Weather

  John Steinbeck (2008). “Sweet Thursday”, p.131, Penguin

• Everyone I have ever known very well has been concerned that I would eventually starve. Probably I shall. It isn't important enough to me to be an obsession.

  John Steinbeck

  Important, Obsession, Hunger

  John Steinbeck (2001). “A Life in Letters”, p.79, Penguin UK

• I have starved and it isn't nearly as bad as is generally supposed. Four days and a half was my longest stretch. Maybe there are pains that come later. Personally I think terror is the painful part of starvation.

  John Steinbeck

  Pain, Thinking, Half

• Some men hunger so much for love that they lose everything that is loveable about them.

  John Steinbeck

  Men, Hunger, Loses

• The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.

  John Steinbeck

  Lines, Hunger, Great Company

  John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.228, Hamilton Books

• I had been practicing for the Depression a long time. I wasn't involved with loss. I didn't have money to lose, but in common with millions I did dislike hunger and cold.

  John Steinbeck

  Loss, Long, Common

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