Death Quote by John Steinbeck — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“A man with a beard was always a little suspect anyway. You couldn't say you wore a beard because you liked a beard. People didn't like you for telling the truth. You had to say you had a scar so you couldn't shave.”

“It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.”

“If we could learn to like ourselves, even a little, maybe our cruelties and angers might melt away.”

“If we could learn to like ourselves, even a little, maybe our cruelties and angers might melt away.”

“This is beyond understanding." said the king. "You are the wisest man alive. You know what is preparing. Why do you not make a plan to save yourself?”

“I knew long ago and rediscovered that the best way to attract attention,help,and conversation is to be lost.A man who seeing his mother starving to death on a path kicks her in the stomach to clear the way, will cheerfully devote several hours of his time giving wrong directions to a total stranger who claims to be lost”

“I cannot pretend I am without fear. But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved; I have been given much and I have given something in return; I have read and traveled and thought and written. I have had an intercourse with the world, the special intercourse of writers and readers.”

“I am not violent. I am not malicious. I am a result.”

“The bombs were coming-and so was I.”

“A fool I was to sleep at noon,”

“It is sensible of me to be aware that I will die one of these days. I will not”

“The universe was exploding, each particle away from the next, hurtling us into dark and lonely space, eternally tearing us away from each other - child out of the womb, friend away from friend, moving from each other, each through his own pathway towards the goal-box of solitary death.”