John Steinbeck Quotes

What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough.

I sat there with everything - and I had nothing.

I know people who are wealthy and they're miserable.

I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing

What is more miserable than discontent?

I was drinking a lot of bourbon. I was miserable. I was starting to get work, but it wasn't remotely satisfying. It was garbage compared to the theater I was doing.

These riches are possess'd, but not enjoy'd!

I have everything and I have nothing. Sometimes I feel like the loneliest man on the planet. All this 'stuff' and no one to share it with. And then when women come along, I wonder if they like the stuff more than me.

My life as a professional musician is a joyless exercise in futility.

Now is the winter of our discontent.

I'm never, like I say, I'm never happy, I'm never satisfied, it's never good enough.

I hated my work. It never seemed to me to be what I should be doing.

No matter where you're going it's the wrong place.

Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.

I've always had this deep and chronic sense of dissatisfaction.

I am basically a complainer and all the grounds for complaint have been swept out from under me.

Happiness? No, it's not there for me.

The discontented man finds no easy chair.

There are plenty of miserable millionaires all over the place.

You don't even have to hate to have a perfectly miserable time.

I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.

My job is discouraging in the extreme—it often tempts me to quit the helm in despair.

A minority of malcontents, some justly, some unjustly, angry with the present state of things, will always exist in this world.

I knew my ways were unfulfilling. I chased power, pleasure, possessions, something satisfying. I knew I kept getting let down. I knew it was insanity, and I was never going to find fulfillment, but I didn't know what else to look for.

When I left the Seekers it was because I was unhappy. I wouldn't have left if I'd been happy.