Top 65 Steinbeck Love Quotes
#1. Man hates something in himself. He has been able to defeat every natural obstacle but himself he cannot win over unless he kills every individual. And this self-hate which goes so closely in hand with self-love is what I wrote about. - in a letter to George Albee
John Steinbeck
#2. I think there must have been some other girl printed somewhere in his heart, for he was a man of love and his wife was not a woman to show her feelings.
John Steinbeck
#3. But you must give him some sign, some sign that you love him ... or he'll never be a man. All his life he'll feel guilty and alone unless you release him.
John Steinbeck
#4. Hate cannot live alone. It must have love as a trigger, a goad, or a stimulant.
John Steinbeck
#5. But I have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thing in the universe. It is always attacked and never destroyed - because 'Thou mayest.
John Steinbeck
#6. You love beer so much. I'll bet some day you'll go in and order a beer milk shake.
John Steinbeck
#7. Once Charley fell in love with a dachshund, a romance racially unsuitable, physically ridiculous, and mechanically impossible. But all these problems Charley ignored. He loved deeply and tried dogfully.
John Steinbeck
#9. There are some times ... when the love for people is strong and warm like a sorrow.
John Steinbeck
#10. There are places in this world where fable, myth, preconception, love, longing or prejudice step in and so distort a cool, clear appraisal that a kind of high colored magical confusion takes permanent hold ... Surely Texas is such a place ...
John Steinbeck
#11. It is strange to an American that the English, who love dogs and rarely eat them, nevertheless are brutal with vegetables. It is just one of those national differences which are unfathomable.
John Steinbeck
#12. 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
#13. Love and fighting, and a little wine. Then you are always young, always happy.
John Steinbeck
#14. Captain Loft believed that all women fall in love with a uniform and he did not see how it could be otherwise.
John Steinbeck
#15. He knew he was reeling down in Mary's estimation and he wanted her to love him and to admire him. At the same time there was a fine steel wire of truthfulness in him that cut off the heads of fast-traveling lies.
John Steinbeck
#16. Our Father who art in nature ... must have a great and overwhelming love for no-goods and blots-on-the-town and bums, and Mack and the boys.
John Steinbeck
#17. If you are in love-that's a good thing-that's about the best thing that can happen to anyone.
John Steinbeck
#18. When the fair gold morning of April stirred Mary Hawley awake, she turned over to her husband and saw him, little fingers pulling a frog mouth at her.
John Steinbeck
#19. Then it is better, sir, to love whom one cannot have?"
"Probably better," Lancelot said. "Certainly safer.
John Steinbeck
#21. It would be good to live in a perpetual state of leave-taking, never to go nor to stay, but to remain suspended in that golden emotion of love and longing; to be loved without satiety.
John Steinbeck
#22. I don't know where being a servant came into disrepute. It is the refuge of a philosopher, the food of the lazy, and, properly carried out, it is a position of power, even of love.
John Steinbeck
#23. If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
John Steinbeck
#24. And then the men lay down and put their heads in the girls' laps and looked up into their faces. And they smiled at each other, a tired and peaceful and wonderful secret.
John Steinbeck
#25. I always found in myself a dread of west and a love of east.
John Steinbeck
#26. No gift will ever buy back a man's love when you have removed his self-love.
John Steinbeck
#27. Doc still loved true things but he knew that it was not a general love and it could be a very dangerous mistress.
John Steinbeck
#28. The new American finds his challenge and his love in the traffic-choked streets, skies nested in smog, choking with the acids of industry, the screech of rubber and houses leashed in against one another while the town lets wither a time and die.
John Steinbeck
#29. [He] fell right into the oldest conviction in the world
that the girl you are in love with can't possibly be anything but true and honest.
John Steinbeck
#30. The object of love is the best and most beautiful. Try to live up to it.
John Steinbeck
#31. Maybe
maybe love makes you suspicious and doubting. Is it true that when you love a woman you are never sure
never sure of her because you aren't sure of yourself?
John Steinbeck
#32. I love reading. I'm fortunate enough to have signed books by Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Pynchon.
John Larroquette
#33. Tiny emerged on deck some hours later, shaken but smiling. He said that what he had been considering love had turned out to be simple flatulence. He said he wished all his romantic problems could be solved as easily.
John Steinbeck
#34. A man so painfully in love is capable of self-torture beyond belief.
John Steinbeck
#35. A woman holds dreadful power over a man who is in love with her but she should realize that the quality and force of his love is the index of his potential contempt and hatred.
John Steinbeck
#36. You've never had a quick jump in the hay in your life."
"I could learn, maybe."
"You couldn't fornicate if you wanted to."
"I could try."
"It would take love or hatred to arouse you, and either one would require a slow and stately procedure.
John Steinbeck
#37. I knew from combat that casualties are the victims of a process, not of anger nor of hate or cruelty. And I believe that in the moment of acceptance, between winner and loser, between killer and killed, there is love.
John Steinbeck
#38. Dessie's friends were good and loyal but they were human, and humans love to feel good and they hate to feel bad.
John Steinbeck
#39. I am in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some effection, but with Montana it is love.
John Steinbeck
#40. In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved. Indeed, most of their vices are attempted shortcuts to love.
John Steinbeck
#42. 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
#44. I believe that love cannot be bought except with love.
John Steinbeck
#45. I do love her, and that's odd because she is everything I detest in anyone else.
John Steinbeck
#46. My father said she was a strong woman, and 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 almost indestructible.
John Steinbeck
#47. Men don't fight for what is theirs. They work for it and they love it with all their hearts. When they do that, they want for nothing.
Rebecca Steinbeck
#48. 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?"
And Merlin said quietly, "Because I am wise. In the combat between wisdom and feeling, wisdom never wins.
John Steinbeck
#50. I write because I like to write. I find joy in the texture and tone and rhythm of words. It is a satisfaction like that which follows good and shared love.
John Steinbeck
#51. Don't you love Jesus?' Well, I thought an' I thought an' finally I says, 'No, I don't know nobody name' Jesus. I know a bunch of stories, but I only love people.
John Steinbeck
#52. It requires self-esteem to receive-not self-love but just a pleasant acquaintance and liking for oneself.
John Steinbeck
#53. Vonnegut is one of America's basic artists, a true and worthy heir to the grand tradition of Thoreau, Whitman, Twain, Dreiser, Traven, Tom Wolfe (the real Tom Wolfe, I mean) and Steinbeck. In other words, he writes out of a concern for justice, love, honesty, and hope.
Edward Abbey
#54. I shall tell them this story against the background of the county I grew up in and along the river I know and do not love very much. For I have discovered that there are other rivers.
John Steinbeck
#55. Some men hunger so much for love that they lose everything that is loveable about them.
John Steinbeck
#56. Abra looked at his sunny hair, tight-curled now, and at the eyes that seemed so near to tears, and she felt the longing and itching burn in her chest that is the beginning of love. Also, she wanted to touch Aron, and she did. She put her hand on his arm and felt him shiver under her fingers.
John Steinbeck
#57. The ancients placed love and war in the hands of closely related gods.
John Steinbeck
#58. It was his first experience with this kind of love and it nearly killed him.
John Steinbeck
#59. You're not clever. You don't know what you want. You have no proper fierceness. You let other people walk over you. Sometimes I think you're a weakling who will never amount to a dog turd. Does that answer your question? I love you better. I always have.
John Steinbeck
#61. Is it true that when you love a woman you are never sure - never sure of her because you aren't sure of yourself? I
John Steinbeck
#62. I think I love you, Cal." -Abra I'm not good." -Cal Because you're not good." -Abra
John Steinbeck
#63. All Americans believe that they are born fishermen. For a man to admit a distaste for fishing would be like denouncing mother-love or hating moonlight.
John Steinbeck
#65. I'm in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection. But with Montana it is love. And it's difficult to analyze love when you're in it.
John Steinbeck
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