John Steinbeck Quotes

To be alive at all is to have scars.

Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.

What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.

Ah, the prayers of the millions, how they must fight and destroy each other on their way to the throne of God.

All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.

It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.

I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.

When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you’ve got two new people.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

The nicest thing in the world you can do for anybody is let them help you.