John Steinbeck

United States
27 Feb 1902 // 20 Dec 1968
Writer

Quotes



Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, and emerges ahead of his accomplishments.
Muscles aching to work, minds aching to create - this is man.
If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.
And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.
There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
Essays