The Winter of Our Discontent Quotes

“Can you honestly love a dishonest thing?”

― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

topic:lovehonesty

“To be alive at all is to have scars.”

― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

topic:life

“No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.”

― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

topic:knowledgeselfothers

“People who are most afraid of their dreams convince themselves they don’t dream at all.”

― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

topic:feardreams

“What a frightening thing is the human, a mass of gauges and dials and registers, and we can read only a few and those perhaps not accurately.”

― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

topic:fearunderstandinghumanity

“Farewell has a sweet sound of reluctance. Good-by is short and final, a word with teeth sharp to bite through the string that ties past to the future.”

― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

topic:words

“When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you’ve got two new people.”

― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

topic:changerelationship

“It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.”

― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

topic:darknesslightloss

“So many old and lovely things are stored in the world’s attic, because we don’t want them around us and we don’t dare throw them out.”

― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

topic:age

“In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.”

― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

topic:money