John Steinbeck Quotes About Life

Quotes about: Life

• It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.

  John Steinbeck

  Life, Motivational, Positive

• It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

  John Steinbeck

  Life, Good Morning, Adversity

  John Steinbeck (2008). “Sweet Thursday”, p.180, Penguin

• I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.

  John Steinbeck

  Life, People, Lovely

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.77, Penguin

• 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

• A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean question: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well - or ill?

  John Steinbeck

  Life, Integrity, Character

  John Steinbeck (1952). “East of Eden, And, The Wayward Bus”

• Lord, how the day passes! It's like a life - so quickly when we don't watch it and so slowly when we do.

  John Steinbeck

  Life, Watches, Lord

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.234, Penguin

• A man without words is a man without thought.

  John Steinbeck

  Life, Men, Contradicting

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.125, Penguin

• I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.

  John Steinbeck

  Life, Weather, Climate

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.24, Penguin

• Only mediocrity escapes criticism.

  John Steinbeck

  Life, Criticism, Mediocrity

  John Steinbeck (2001). “A Life in Letters”, p.1159, Penguin UK

• One man was so mad at me that he ended his letter, "Beware. You will never get out of this world alive."

  John Steinbeck

  Life, Men, Mad

  "The Mail I've Seen". Saturday Review magazine, August 03, 1956.

• 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

• People do not want advice - they want corroboration.

  John Steinbeck

  Life, People, Advice

• I think of my life as a kind of music, not always good music but still having form and melody.

  John Steinbeck

  Life, Thinking, Kind

  John Steinbeck (1952). “East of Eden, And, The Wayward Bus”

• He said, "I am a man," and that meant certain things to Juana. It meant that he was half insane and half god.

  John Steinbeck

  Life, Men, Insane

  John Steinbeck (1993). “The Pearl”, p.61, Penguin

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