The American poet was John Ernst Steinbeck Jr. For his realistic and creative works, he received the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature, mixing humorous satire with acute social understanding. John Steinbeck, born February 27, 1902, Salinas, California, USA — died December 20, 1968, New York, New York, American novelist, best known for The Grapes of Wrath. John Steinbeck Quotes are popular in worldwise.
I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.”
John Steinbeck
Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
John Steinbeck
There ain’t no sin and there ain’t no virtue. There’s just stuff people do.
John Steinbeck
All great and precious things are lonely.
John Steinbeck
I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.
John Steinbeck
And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
John Steinbeck
It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.
John Steinbeck
I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that’s why.
John Steinbeck
But 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. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.
John Steinbeck
And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual. This is what I am and what I am about.
John Steinbeck
All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.
John Steinbeck
What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
John Steinbeck
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
John Steinbeck
And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.
John Steinbeck
I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.
John Steinbeck
Try to understand men. If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and almost always leads to love.
John Steinbeck
I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one. . . . Humans are caught—in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness and generosity too—in a net of good and evil. . . . There is no other story. A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean questions: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well—or ill?
John Steinbeck
When a child first catches adults out — when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not always have divine intelligence, that their judgments are not always wise, their thinking true, their sentences just — his world falls into panic desolation. The gods are fallen and all safety gone. And there is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a little; they crash and shatter or sink deeply into green muck. It is a tedious job to build them up again; they never quite shine. And the child’s world is never quite whole again. It is an aching kind of growing.
John Steinbeck