John Steinbeck Quotes

I don't like to sing things that just sound like they're going straight down the tubes, and they're circling the drain, and there's no hope. It doesn't feel good in any way to sing.

I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.

What's the first thing I do when I wake up in the morning? Wish I hadn't.

Not every day is a good day for me.

Struggle happens when you do something which you don't love.

If life were a camera, I'd have the lens cap on.

I don't know if there is actually more rain here in England, or if it was just that the rain seemed to be so deliberately annoying. Every drop hit the window with a peevish "Am I bothering you? Does this make you cold and wet? Oh, sorry.

I'm not always a positive person. I wake up grumpy, I read the newspaper and I get furious that the world is still at war.

Everywhere I looked life seemed to be full of problems and they were just going to go on and on. It was never going to get any better.

You don't want me here, I don't wanna be here, so why am I here?

It was hopeless, life, really. It was set up all wrong.

We burn so hard, but we shed so little light; it makes us crazy and sad.

Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers

Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.

I was fine, until I was born. And it's been downhill ever since.

All men are a disappointment. No matter what anyone says.

If not exactly raging against the dying of the light, I was at least a little cross with it.

No fortune is so good but that you may find something to grumble about.

When you cut facilities, slash jobs, abuse power, discriminate, drive people into deeper poverty & shoot people dead whilst refusing to provide answers or justice, the people will rise up & express their anger & frustration if you refuse to hear their cries. A riot is the language of the unheard.

bitter is a bad way to live!

The worst time is always the present.

I don't know how you do it [working at office]; I would just get up and walk out. That's what I did for pretty much every job I've ever had.

If you're consumed only with the big dream, you're going to die because you won't be able to feed yourself or you're going to be losing your job, so you'll just be sitting in your room dreaming, but if you're only holding onto the crap jobs that keep you just above of the water you're going to be unhappy. You're going to be burnt out, washed out.

No matter how bad you think something is, when you look into it, it's always worse.

Reality is crushing. The world is a wrong-sized shoe. How can anyone stand it?