East of Eden Quotes

“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, East of Eden

topic:love

“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 short cuts to love.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

topic:love

“A man so painfully in love is capable of self-torture beyond belief.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

topic:love pain

“It is a hard thing to leave any deeply routined life, even if you hate it.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

topic:life change

“And the women who had thought they wanted dresses never realized that what they had wanted was happiness.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

topic:happiness women

“The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow, eating agony of a lie is never lost.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

topic:truth pain lie

“There’s more beauty in the truth even if it is dreadful beauty.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

topic:truth beauty

“No story has power, nor will it last, unless we feel in ourselves that it is true and true of us.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

topic:truth

“I think the difference between a lie and a story is that a story utilizes the trappings and appearance of truth for the interest of the listener as well as of the teller. A story has in it neither gain nor loss. But a lie is a device for profit...”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

topic:truth writing lie

“An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There’s a punishment for it, and it’s usually crucifixion.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

topic:truth belief courage

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