John Steinbeck Quotes About Pleasure

Quotes about: Pleasure

• I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.

  John Steinbeck

  Pleasure, Travels With Charley, Lost

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.43, Penguin

• Strange how one person can saturate a room with vitality, with excitement. Then there are others, and this dame was one of them, who can drain off energy and joy, can suck pleasure dry and get no sustenance from it. Such people spread a grayness in the air about them.

  John Steinbeck

  Air, People, Joy

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.30, Penguin

• It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

  John Steinbeck

  Death, Two, Eden

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.363, Penguin

• for how can you remember the feel of pleasure or pain or choking emotion? You can remember only that you had them.

  John Steinbeck

  Pain, Emotion, Remember

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.113, 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

• In my heart there may be doubt that I deserve the Nobel award over other men of letters whom I hold in respect and reverence, but there is no question of my pleasure and pride in having it for myself.

  John Steinbeck

  Heart, Pride, Men

  John Steinbeck (2003). “America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction”, p.146, Penguin

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