John Steinbeck Death Quotes

#1. George Patton and Winston Churchill are simpatico.

Bill O'Reilly

#2. Laughter at yourself comes last of all in a mad race with death,

John Steinbeck

#3. I have wondered why is it that some people are less affected and torn by the verities of life and death that others.

John Steinbeck

#4. Childrens books change lives. Stories pour into the hearts of children and help make them what they become.

Jane Yolen

#5. Death was a friend, and sleep was Death's brother.

John Steinbeck

#6. No it wasn't at the time cause you have to remember, I had been playing clubs since I was 13.

Steve Brown

#7. This here ol' man jus' lived a life an' just died out of it. I don' know whether he was good or bad, but that don't matter much. He was alive, an' that's what matters.

John Steinbeck

#8. The wedding was in Monterey, a sombre boding ceremony in a little Protestant chapel. The church had so often seen two ripe bodies die by the process of marriage that it seemed to celebrate a mystic double death with its ritual.

John Steinbeck

#9. Every scarecrow has a secret ambition to terrorize.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#10. You were like a cloud, you were just like a flower, then you were a lime, now our love is sour.

Paul Banks

#11. Fearful and unprepared, we have assumed lordship over the life or death of the whole world, of all living things.

John Steinbeck

#12. She turned to go. The Beast would freeze if she left him there. He had saved her life. Cursing,

Liz Braswell

#13. Everything seems to work with a recurring rhythm except life. There is only one birth and only one death. Nothing else is like that.

John Steinbeck

#14. I don't mind getting smacked on the chin. I just don't want to get nibbled to death. There's a difference.

John Steinbeck

#15. There are people out there who've paid good money to hear me. I always figure when all you got is the deposit slip, you better be real nice to the folks that have the checkbook.

Thomas Cobb

#16. Some men ease themselves like setting hens into the nest of death.

John Steinbeck

#17. Oh, strawberries don't taste as they used to and the thighs of women have lost their clutch! And some men eased themselves like setting hens into the nest of death. History

John Steinbeck

#18. Casy said solemnly, This here ol' man jus' lived a life an' just died out of it. I don't know whether he was good or bad, but that don't matter much. He was alive, an' that's what matters. An' now his dead, an' that don't matter ...

John Steinbeck

#19. Our proverbs want rewriting. They were made in winter, and it is summer now; spring-time for me, I think, a very dance of blossoms in blue skies.

Oscar Wilde

#20. Do you think it's funny to be so serious when I'm not even out of high school?' she asked.
'I don't see how it could be any other way,' said Lee. 'Laughter comes later, like wisdom teeth, and laughter at yourself comes last of all in a mad race with death, and sometimes it isn't in time.

John Steinbeck

#21. We do know that we are cheated from birth to the overcharge on our coffins.

John Steinbeck

#22. Nobody has the right to remove any single experience from another. Life and death are promised. We have a right to pain.

John Steinbeck

#23. It's more believable that a cop would get involved in solving these murders. I mean, you're talking about writing a series. How believable is it that this Hollywood gossip columnist is going to keep stumbling on all these murders?

Josh Lanyon

#24. I wondered why it is that some people are less affected and torn by the verities of life and death than others.

John Steinbeck

#25. 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

#26. Una's death struck Samuel like a silent earthquake. He said no brave and reassuring words, he simply sat alone and rocked himself.

John Steinbeck

#27. We must get out of the banged-up century, some said, out of this cheating, murderous century of riot and secret death, of scrabbling for public land and damn well getting them by any means.

John Steinbeck

#28. Laughter comes later, like wisdom teeth, and laughter at yourself comes last of all in a mad race with death, and sometimes it isn't in time." Her

John Steinbeck

#29. Can you hear me, Father? Can you understand me?" The eyes did not change or move. "I did it,"
Cal cried. "I'm responsible for Aron's death and for your sickness. I took him to Kate's. I showed him
his mother. That's why he went away. I don't want to do bad things - but I do them.

John Steinbeck

#30. Until I have learned how to express myself as a human, I will not consider speaking as a god.

Michael Walterich