John Steinbeck Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

• A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

  John Steinbeck

  Loneliness, Soul, Literature

• I believe there are monsters born in the world to human parents.... The face and body may be perfect, but if a twisted gene or a malformed egg can produce physical monsters, may not the same process produce a malformed soul?

  John Steinbeck

  Believe, Eggs, Eden

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.66, Penguin

• In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

  John Steinbeck

  Anger, Wrath, Vintage

  John Steinbeck (1990). “Working Days: The Journals of The Grapes of Wrath”, p.22, Penguin

• You are not a man anymore. You are a soldier. Your comfort is of no importance and your life isn't of much importance. Most of your orders will be unpleasant, but that's not your business. They should've trained you for this, and not for flower-strewn streets. They should have built your soul with truth, not led along with lies.

  John Steinbeck

  Lying, Military, Flower

• But I have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thing in the universe. It is always attacked and never destroyed - because 'Thou mayest.

  John Steinbeck

  Unique, Eden, Soul

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.265, Penguin

• Then the hard, dry Spaniards came exploring through, greedy and realistic, and their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls as they collected jewels. They gathered mountains and valleys, rivers and whole horizons, the way a man might now gain tittle to building lots.

  John Steinbeck

  Men, Jewels, Rivers

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.11, Penguin

• Why do men like me want sons? he wondered. It must be because they hope in their poor beaten souls that these new men, who are their blood, will do the things they were not strong enough nor wise enough nor brave enough to do. It is rather like another chance at life; like a new bag of coins at a table of luck after your fortune is gone.

  John Steinbeck

  Wise, Strong, Son

  John Steinbeck (2008). “Cup of Gold: A Life of Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer, with Occasional Reference to History”, p.41, Penguin

• And their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls as they collected jewels.

  John Steinbeck

  Jewels, Greed, Soul

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.11, Penguin

• To a man born without conscience, a soul-stricken man must seem ridiculous. To a criminal, honesty is foolish. You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and that to a monster the norm is monstrous.

  John Steinbeck

  Honesty, Men, Soul

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.66, Penguin

• Says he foun' he jus' got a little piece of a great big soul. Says a wilderness ain't no good, 'cause his little piece of a soul wasn't no good 'less it was with the rest, an' was whole.

  John Steinbeck

  Wrath, Soul, Pieces

  John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.338, Hamilton Books

• The Hebrew word, the word timshel - 'Thou mayest' - that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open...Why, that makes a man great...He can choose his course and fight it through and win...I have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thing in the universe. It is always attacked and never destroyed - because 'Thou mayest'. ch 24

  John Steinbeck

  Fighting, Winning, Unique

• Look at them. There are your true philosophers. I think that Mack and the boys know everything that has ever happened in the world and possibly everything that will happen. I think they survive in this particular world better than other people. In a time when people tear themselves to pieces with ambition and nervousness and covetousness, they are relaxed. All of our so-called successful men are sick men, with bad stomachs, and bad souls, but Mack and the boys are healthy and curiously clean. They can do what they want. They can satisfy their appetites without calling them something else.

  John Steinbeck

  Ambition, Successful, Boys

• He had said, "I am a man," and that meant certain things to Juana. It meant that he was half insane and half god. It meant that Kino would drive his strength against a mountain and plunge his strength against the sea. Juana, in her woman's soul, knew that the mountain would stand while the man broke himself; that the sea would surge while the man drowned in it. And yet it was this thing that made him a man, half insane and half god, and Juana had need of a man; she could not live without a man.

  John Steinbeck

  Men, Sea, Soul

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

• The sale of souls to gain the whole world is completely voluntary and almost unanimous...but not quite.

  John Steinbeck

  Soul, World, Gains

  John Steinbeck (1963). “The short novels of John Steinbeck: Tortilla Flat, The red pony, Of mice and men, The moon is down, Cannery Row, The pearl”

• 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

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