Skip to content
Quotation mark
  • Browse
    • Books
    • Authors
    • Tags
    • Quotes
  • Login
  • Join

Quotes by
John Steinbeck

  • East of Eden
  • The Grapes of Wrath

“You can boast about anything if it’s all you have. Maybe the less you have, the more you are required to boast.”

-John Steinbeck, East of Eden
Copy Quote Direct Link Cancel

tags materialism

“Eventlessness has no posts to drape duration on. From nothing to nothing is no time at all.”

-John Steinbeck, East of Eden
Copy Quote Direct Link Cancel

tags life, short, time

“You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and that to a monster the norm is monstrous.”

-John Steinbeck, East of Eden
Copy Quote Direct Link Cancel

tags perception

“Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of man.”

-John Steinbeck, East of Eden
Copy Quote Direct Link Cancel

tags creativity, ideas, people

“who knows? maybe in our lifetime.”

-John Steinbeck, East of Eden
Copy Quote Direct Link Cancel

tags time, uncertainty

“You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your preconception. You see what is, where most people see what they expect.”

-John Steinbeck, East of Eden
Copy Quote Direct Link Cancel

tags people, perception, society

“There are no ugly questions except those clothed in condescension.”

-John Steinbeck, East of Eden
Copy Quote Direct Link Cancel

tags short

“She was very clever. She told the best lie of all – the truth.”

-John Steinbeck, East of Eden
Copy Quote Direct Link Cancel

tags people, short, truth

“An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie.”

-John Steinbeck, East of Eden
Copy Quote Direct Link Cancel

tags pain, perception, short, truth

“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 to the world.”

-John Steinbeck, East of Eden
Copy Quote Direct Link Cancel

tags choice, death, inspirational, life

“It is one of the triumphs of the human that he can know a thing and still not believe it.”

-John Steinbeck, East of Eden
Copy Quote Direct Link Cancel

tags belief, choice, people, perception, short

“You see, there’s a responsibility in being a person. It’s more than just taking up space where air would be.”

-John Steinbeck, East of Eden
Copy Quote Direct Link Cancel

tags existence, responsibility, society

“When you’re a child you’re the center of everything. Everything happens to you. Other people? They’re only ghosts furnished for you to talk to.”

-John Steinbeck, East of Eden
Copy Quote Direct Link Cancel

tags childhood, existence, perception

“There ain’t no sin and there ain’t no virtue. There’s just stuff people do.”

-John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
Copy Quote Direct Link Cancel

tags life, philosophy, short

“And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.”

-John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
Copy Quote Direct Link Cancel

tags history, politics

“How can we live without our lives? How will we know it’s us without our past?”

-John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
Copy Quote Direct Link Cancel

tags memory

“You’re bound to get idears if you go thinkin’ about stuff.”

-John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
Copy Quote Direct Link Cancel

“Muscles aching to work, minds aching to create – this is man.”

-John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
Copy Quote Direct Link Cancel

tags inspirational

“Up ahead they’s a thousan’ lives we might live, but when it comes it’ll on’y be one.”

-John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
Copy Quote Direct Link Cancel

tags inspirational, life, time

“That’s the wonderful thing about man; he never gets so discouraged or disgusted that he gives up doing it all over again, because he knows very well it is important and WORTH the doing.”

-Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
Copy Quote Direct Link Cancel

tags inspirational, people

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • …
  • 453
  • Submit a Correction
  • Newsletter

453 Quotes
59 Books
41 Authors

myBookQuotes