John Steinbeck Quotes About Loneliness

Quotes about: Loneliness

• A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

  John Steinbeck

  Loneliness, Soul, Literature

• Maybe ever'body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.

  John Steinbeck

  Loneliness, People, World

  John Steinbeck (2013). “Of Mice and Men: Teacher's Deluxe Edition”, p.38, Penguin

• All great and precious things are lonely.

  John Steinbeck

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.458, Penguin

• In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.

  John Steinbeck

  Loneliness, Trying, Literature

  John Steinbeck (1990). “Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters”, p.8, Penguin

• 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

• We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say — and to feel — "Yes, that’s the way it is, or at least that’s the way I feel it. You’re not as alone as you thought."

  John Steinbeck

  Loneliness, Animal, Trying

  "In Awe of Words". The Exonian, 75th anniversary edition, Exeter University, 1930.

• As with many people, Charles, who could not talk, wrote with fullness. He set down his loneliness and his perplexities, and he put on paper many things he did not know about himself.

  John Steinbeck

  Loneliness, People, Paper

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.34, Penguin

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