John Steinbeck Quotes About Loss

Quotes about: Loss

• Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

  John Steinbeck

  Fear, Loss, Power

  "The Short Reign of Pippin IV". Book by John Steinbeck, p. 102, 1957.

• It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.

  John Steinbeck

  Loss, Dark, Grieving

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.247, Penguin

• I think the difference between a lie and a story is that a story utilizes the trappings and appearance of truth for the interest of the listener as well as of the teller. A story has in it neither gain nor loss. But a lie is a device for profit or escape. I suppose if that definition is strictly held to, then a writer of stories is a liar - if he is financially fortunate.

  John Steinbeck

  Liars, Lying, Loss

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.67, Penguin

• We, or at least I, can have no conception of human life and human thought in a hundred years or fifty years. Perhaps my greatest wisdom is the knowledge that I do not know. The sad ones are those who waste their energy in trying to hold it back, for thy can only feel bitterness in loss and no joy in gain.

  John Steinbeck

  Loss, Years, Joy

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.64, Penguin

• The sad ones are those who waste their energy in trying to hold it back, for they can only feel bitterness in loss and no joy in gain.

  John Steinbeck

  Loss, Joy, Trying

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.64, Penguin

• The warfare between the unaroused male and female is constant and ferocious. Each blames the other for his loss of soul.

  John Steinbeck

  Loss, Men, Soul

• 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

• The cars of the migrant people crawled out of the side roads onto the great cross-country highway, and they took the migrant way to the West.... And because they were lonely and perplexed, because they had all come from a place of sadness and worry and defeat, and because they were all going to a mysterious new place, ... a strange thing happened: the twenty families became one family, the children were the children of all. The loss of home became one loss, and the golden time in the West was one dream.

  John Steinbeck

  Country, Dream, Lonely

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